On 2001.10.05 17:36 Johannes Prix wrote: > I read in the FAQ, that NVidia provide their own > binary closed source drivers. Yet visiting the Nvidia > homepage driver section I find, that there are not only > binary drivers for several distributions, but also a source > rpm and a source tarball "for those interested". Actually
NVidia provides two rpms. NVIDIA_GLX is strictly binary. NVIDIA_kernel contains two (IIRC) C source files for interfacing to kernel (this gives the drivers a chance to work with different kernels). And the driver itself is a binary file. (Also, providing some sources does not make the entire driver a "Free Software".) I would call this solution a lesser evil. /Pawel -- Pawel Salek, http://www.theochem.kth.se/~pawsa/ _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
