[ale] nvidia news

[Rich Faulkner]

Very interesting.  Many thanks for the head's up...


On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 20:08 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/03/26/2240250/Nvidia-Drops-Support-For-Its-Open-Source-Driver?from=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2FslashdotLinux+(Slashdot%3A+Linux)
> 
>  Posted by timothy  on Friday March 26, @06:50PM 
> An anonymous reader writes "While Nvidia is not open-source friendly (despite 
> public outcries over the years), they have traditionally supported the 
> xf86-video-nv driver to provide basic mode setting support and other basic 
> functionality. However, with the 'Fermi' and future products, even that 
> open-source support will cease to exist. Nvidia has announced they are 
> dropping this open-source support for future GPUs and really ending it 
> altogether. Nvidia's recommendation is to just use the generic X.Org VESA 
> driver to navigate their way to nvidia.com so that they can install the 
> proprietary driver. Fortunately there is the Nouveau project that provides a 
> 2D and 3D video driver for Nvidia's hardware, but Nvidia fails to acknowledge 
> it nor support their efforts in any form." David Gerard points out that 
> Nouveau is going into Linux 2.6.33.
>