Re: Video Card

[" Raymond A. Ingles" <inglesra@frc.com>]

On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Robert Rati wrote:

> >  nVidia has supported their cards with GPL'd source. [...]

> I, too, have been looking at vid cards and had pretty much already decided
> on the TNT2 before I heard their drivers are open source.  That's all I
> needed to put them on top.  But, where do you find the Mesa drivers for
> them?

 Well, nVidia has submitted patches to XFree86 and Mesa, and I know
they've been incorporated into XFree86 3.3.4. I think the latest Mesa
source has the patches, too. But if you want precompiled stuff, go to
nVidia's web page:

 http://www.nvidia.com/Products.nsf/htmlmedia/software_drivers.html

 Sincerely,

 Ray Ingles          (248) 377-7735          ray.ingles@fanucrobotics.com

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