[plug] Re: NVdriver

Mike Holland myk at plug.linux.org.au
Wed Nov 20 16:17:56 WST 2002


On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Craig Ringer wrote:

> I just don't want to go near binary only drivers.
> 
> $ lsmod | grep NV
> NVdriver
> 
> well.... mostly. I think the NVidia drivers are about as safe as you can 
> get in binary driver terms. I wish they were open source but with NVidia 

Fear not. That NVdriver can be built from source and an 'nv.o' object file 
which is kernel independent.
  Though they dont release the full source, it should work with future 
kernels. For a while, anyway.


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