On Thursday 04 May 2006 7:35 am, S. Schwartz wrote:
> Richard Fish wrote:
> > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127618
>
> Thanks for the link, very interesting indeed.
>
> In comment #18 someone says that Nvidia won't release a newer legacy
> driver set any time soon, whereas in the nVNews-forum someone from
> NVIDIA Corporation announced that an updated legacy graphics driver is
> planned for the near future. That one should match 1.0-8756.
>
> Sounds pretty bad and good at the same time. Still: isn't someone of the
> Gentoo-guys (experienced in patching) able to patch the old 6629 for the
> time being or do I simply underestimate the effort?
>
> Sigi
Nvidia dont release the source for this driver, which makes it difficult for 
others to patch it, even if they new how the card internals worked ;). Does 
the xorg nv driver do what you need?
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