Re: Graphics cards with Free drivers
On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 15:49 +0000, A J Stiles wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 Apr 2008, Dean Hamstead wrote:
> > the reverse engineered nvidia driver is working now,
> >
> > cant recall the name of it.
> >
> > is there any reason you cant use with nvidia blob?
>
> Yes: it's a binary blob, i.e. it doesn't include any Source Code. That is a
> fairly compelling reason not to run it, I think.
>
> > the basic 'nv' driver will work for most nvidia cards, but its largely
> > just rudimentry 2d support.
>
> Please define "most". (That's the driver I'm using on my machine at work,
> which is fitted with an older nVidia card.) I want to be certain that
> whatever I buy will work correctly with 100% Free software.
SUPPORTED HARDWARE
The nv driver supports PCI, PCI-Express and AGP video cards
based on the following NVIDIA chips:
RIVA 128 NV3
RIVA TNT NV4
RIVA TNT2 NV5
GeForce 256, QUADRO NV10
GeForce2, QUADRO2 NV11 & NV15
GeForce3, QUADRO DCC NV20
nForce, nForce2 NV1A, NV1F
GeForce4, QUADRO4 NV17, NV18, NV25, NV28
GeForce FX, QUADRO FX NV30, NV31, NV34, NV35, NV36, NV37, NV38
GeForce 6XXX NV40, NV41, NV43, NV44, NV45, C51
GeForce 7XXX G70, G71, G72, G73
GeForce 8XXX G80, G84, G86, G92
> > there is nvidia drivers for 32bit and 64bit, no need to cut your teeth
> > on reverse engineered drivers unless you have some compelling reason to
> > buy an amd64 and run an older card.
>
> Unless and until the European Union step in and rule binary-only drivers to be
> illegal, anyone who uses them is entirely at the mercy of hardware vendors --
> vide recent developments with Creative sound card drivers in the Windows
> world.
>
> I care about not being shafted that way myself, and I care about other people
> not being shafted in future.
>
> --
> AJS
> delta echo bravo six four at earthshod dot co dot uk
>
>
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