> > Dude, the Debs are just a packaged version of the Nvidia drivers, and
> > auto-download from Nividia's site, so it makes no difference.
>
> It certainly does make a difference. I was not criticising Debian
> packages/maintainers, merely the nature of the Nvidia drviers.
As far as supporting nvidia, it makes no difference whether you download
their tarball drivers or install the nvidia-glx-src and nvidia-kernel-src
Debs, because the latter are just a packaged version of the former, and
are designed to auto-download the necessary files from Nvidia's site, so
as far as 'supporting' Nvidia's non-free drivers, it's the same either
way.
As for this notion of 'supporting' Nvidia by d/ling non-free drivers,
<sarcasm> oh, yes, Nvidia's executives are just waiting with bated breath
for the next batch of FTP logs so they can see how popular their drivers
are.</sarcasm>
> > And, from what I'm told, Nvidia would like to open their drivers
>
> <sarcasm>
> Oh yes, that's right, because Nvidia "care" deeply about such things :P
> </sarcasm>
Probably not, but as a company run by (presumably) intelligent people they
understand that closing their drivers is not in their best interests from
a business standpoint, which is why they opened the 'nv' driver in the
base X distribution.
> > Regardless, I like the debs
>
> I like debs, I think their grrrreat however I think Nvidia's drivers are
> evil. Is there anything actually preventing you from using XF86 "nv"?
Well, just the fact that I like using my card's 3D capabilities. The
'nvidia' and 'nv' drivers are more or less the same, except that the former
supports 3D, but consequently has to be closed-source in order to comply
with Nvidia's licence with SGI for OpenGL. It's SGI that people should
be griping about.
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