On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 23:03, Soren Harward wrote: > Stuart Jansen wrote: > > As for the nv driver, the answer is "maybe". You might be able to get > > away with repeating the install process, but don't count onit. Binary > > only drivers are ugly. Opinions vary, but I'd prefer to buy ATI over > > nVidia just because of the drivers. > > Except for the fact that you *can* get the source code for the NVIDIA > drivers. Building from source is usually your best friend in these > cases because the dependencies are often really tricky.
Unless I'm confusing my video card vendors again (something that happens pretty often since I'm not a gamer), you're not compiling the entire driver. You're recompiling some wrapper stuff that links in their proprietary binary. -- Stuart Jansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> #define FALSE 0 /* This is the naked Truth */ #define TRUE 1 /* and this is the Light */ -- mailto.c ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
