[plug] Video card of choice for linux

James Andrewartha trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Wed Mar 7 17:49:28 WST 2001


On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Peter Wright wrote:

> The only issue with them is the lack of source code. Their kernel driver
> source is available, but the XFree86 driver source is not. In my opinion,
> it's a relatively minor issue - but it would be nice if they'd open-source
> both drivers.

Apparently NVidia get some of their drivers (OpenGL?) from another
company, so they can't open source the code since they don't own it.

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