On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 05:36:49PM +0200, Johannes Prix wrote:
> I read in the FAQ, that NVidia provide their own
> binary closed source drivers. Yet visiting the Nvidia
> homepage driver section I find, that there are not only
> binary drivers for several distributions, but also a source
> rpm and a source tarball "for those interested". Actually
> I used this source and the explicit and very details
> compilation and troubleshooting information there to install
> the driver on my system. It compiled and works well. Have
> I misunderstood the concept of closed source or is this
> perhaps valuable and sufficient information for the DRI project?
> Has there been a change in the attitude of NVidia? Perhaps
> someone could change those lines in the FAQ, for NVidia has
> in my opinion done great work. Thanks a lot if anyone has
> the time to answer this mail.
If you look carefully at the source, you'll find it is just a small
wrapper for the actual code. All the actual code that operates the card
is in binaries. This makes it easier for them to install their driver on
different versions of the Linux kernel, but it really is closed source
and doesn't provide any useful information to someone who wants to write
drivers for the card.
- |Daryll
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