On Wednesday 05 of November 2003 00:30, Gerhard W. Gruber wrote: > The module of XFree86 is nv for nVidia. The proprietary drivers are > called nvidia. Apparently nVidia open sourced only that small part > needed on the side of XFree86 and closed source on the kernel part.
AFAIK, NVidia's driver consists of two parts, which intercommunicate: - the kernel driver, - the XFree driver, along with modified libGL. And EVERYTHING is closed source binary. Except for a little part of kernel driver which is needed for the driver to be able to load into whatever kernel the user is running; this part is compiled and then linked with binary part of that kernel module, which is then installed and loadable by insmod. And that kernel module communicates with closed source binary driver for XFree86, drv_nvidia.o. I hope that clears it up. -- Rafał Rzepecki _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
