Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Honest does not pay here ... | From | Henning Schmiedehausen <> | Date | 06 Jan 2003 10:31:51 +0100 |
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On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 01:22, David van Hoose wrote: > Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote: > > David van Hoose <davidvh@cox.net> writes: > > > > > >>Binary-only drivers are great as long as they work. Every such driver I > >>have used so far has worked perfectly. > >>I have only one problem with NVidia's driver: It refuses to compile > >>under 2.5.54 which requires me use X's nv driver or use 2.4.21 for KDE. > >>Anyone know how to get around that? :-) > > > > > > You get what you paid for. Go to the nVidia support forum and complain > > loudly. That's what it is there for. I'd probably say that they tell > > you to stick to the "released versions of Linux". If you consider this > > support policy sucky, well there is the ATI Radeon chip... > > Very true. And if they don't want to support the beta kernel, that's > there choice. I'd rather them throw a driver in for people that use the > beta kernel for possibly testing new chipsets, know whether or not they > need to do revisions before their own driver can be released, and so > when the beta kernel is finally released that they'll have a driver > right then to provide.
As I use the nvdriver on 2.4, I didn't have the pressure yet to chase a driver for 2.5. But I'd guess that nvidia has some sort of non-public beta program where they do testing of their stuff on latest kernels. I'd simply ask whether there is such a program and how to join.
After all, they surely _want_ their driver to be used. Because it sells boards. :-)
> The impression I am getting from the GPL argument is that people want > 100% opensource drivers. Well, to be frank, I'd rather have a driver > that isn't 100% opensource to no driver at all. I think most everyone on
Couldn't agree more.
Regards Henning
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