On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 09:06:37AM -0600, Michael L Torrie wrote: > > Anytime you are willing to contaminate your kernel with a binary-only > driver that's several megabytes in size, you should expect some > stability problems. And the kernel developers are very right to refuse > to take any bug reports from a user who has such a driver loaded into > his kernel. > > Hopefully as the software industry moves more and more towards using > FOSS system software components to build their products on (read the > talk by Andrew Morton from the Linux Symposium -- it's good), hopefully > hardware venders will be pressured to provide FOSS components. It > really is in the economic interests of everyone to do this, although > from time to time companies get hung up on their desire to dominate in a > way that ultimately hurts everyone.
I've fortunately had little or no problem with nVidia drivers on the several systems that I've used them, but I agree with Michael that the significant minority with problems would get them solved much more quickly if the drivers were open source. Unfortunately, very few vendors support open-source drivers, and nVidia is definitely one of the more Linux-friendly vendors out there. My hope is that eventually they'll open the source for more and more of their driver, but until then they're still just about the best alternative when it comes to graphics cards. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868
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