Hmm. I may be incorrect. I've read a few comments from others saying that nouveau descends from the BeOS/Haiku 3d driver for Nvidia cards instead of nv.
Either way it's reverse-engineered. nv is fairly obfuscated: http://cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/vga256/drivers/nv/?hideattic=0&only_with_tag=xf-3_3_3 In the long run, we'll have to wait for this to settle. In the short run, don't use nVidia. On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Brian Kemp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sam: > > If bug 187 [1] is valid, we need to leave some nouveau components out > (in the short term). That is likely to render the driver useless. > > I think one of the nouveau guys said at FOSDEM that the nv driver is > really obfuscated and so arguably non-free as well. I don't know how > that (should) affect gNewSense. > > So maybe Vesa is your only option in gNewSense, which isn't that bad on > an LCD monitor if you don't need 3D. > > (To my knowledge, VGA is not a driver but a standard screen resolution.) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > nv was obfuscated by nVidia a long time ago. The nouveau project went > back through x.org's source control and found the pre-obfuscated code > and un-obfuscated the nv code before starting their work. > > I'm fairly sure it's all reverse-engineered and not cribbed from some > non-free driver source. > > I can't vouch for this as I didn't do it, but I'm fairly sure that's > what I remember from reading up on nouveau. > > (Back to work.) > _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
