[PLUG] A bit confused about 2.6 kernel and X drivers

[Vincent Yau]

Since I started this thread, I thought I should point out that I have fixed 
my
Nvidia driver 4k stack problem.

I took Alan's advice (Thanks Alan) and got a copy of the latest X server
from X.org, change the config to use driver "nv".  The box using Nvidia
quattro card that could not fire up X before works just fine now.  I have 
upgraded
the kernel to 2.6.6 as well.



>From: Brian Beattie <beattie at beattie-home.net>
>Reply-To: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
>To: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
>Subject: Re: [PLUG] A bit confused about 2.6 kernel and X drivers
>Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 15:05:49 -0400
>
>On Fri, 2004-06-04 at 11:26, AthlonRob wrote:
> > On Friday 04 June 2004 08:08 am, Brian Beattie wrote:
> > > Why is this not a problem for ATI?  I don't buy it for one second.
> >
> > I haven't looked at ATi cards for quite some time... but when last I 
>did,
> > their drivers worked similarly to nVidia's... a chunk of binary-only and 
>a
> > chunk of code to make that binary stuff work.
> >
> > Are their drivers fully opensource now?
>
>All I know, is that the video cards I have used over the years, have all
>been supported by X, no kernel modules have been needed.  But of course
>I'm not a l337 gamer.  I do not believe that patents are the real reason
>that Nvida refuses to provide the information needed for drivers to be
>written, unless they really are violating somebodies valid patent.  I
>think they a just paranoid and afraid that is anybody actually saw their
>design they would laugh.  I see it all the time companies are so
>convinced that they have some magic jewel of a technique that gives them
>a leg up on everybody else, and they are almost always wrong.  In every
>case, it would be easier to implement the functionality from scratch,
>based on public knowledge, that it would be to aquire the magic jewels.
>
> >
> > Rob
> >
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