NVIDIA Drops Their Open-Source Driver

news · March 26, 2010

At Phoronix we have posted a new article. A link to this from your

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Title: NVIDIA Drops Their Open-Source Driver ( -at -) Phoronix

Summary: "NVIDIA's open-source Linux efforts as it concerns their GPU

support have historically been minimal. The xf86-video-nv driver has

been around that provides very basic 2D acceleration and a crippled set

of features besides that (no proper RandR 1.2/1.3, KMS, power

management, etc) while the code has also been obfuscated to try to

protect their intellectual property. However, NVIDIA has decided to

deprecate this open-source driver of theirs. No, NVIDIA is not working

on a new driver. No, NVIDIA is not going to support the Nouveau project.

Instead, NVIDIA now just recommends its users use the X.Org VESA driver

to get to NVIDIA.com when installing Linux so they can install their

proprietary driver."

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