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Re: NVIDIA driver



On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 08:17, Christian Schoenebeck wrote:

> 
> I already updated to Woody, but you were right Caleb. X was still 
> 3.2.something. For what reason ever, this package wasn't updated with the 
> distribution upgrade.
> 
> Thanks people for your help!
> 
> Btw, is this "kernel tainted" message normal? Aren't there any GPL drivers 
> for NVidia?

Yes, the kernel tainted message is normal.  Yes, XFree86 comes with a
free driver for nvidia card (not GPL, X11 license I believe), just
called "nv".  It works fine, as long as you don't want 3D acceleration
:).  Of course, if you didn't want 3D, why did you buy an Nvidia card?

Cheers,

Caleb

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