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Lee Revell wrote:

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> On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 12:44 -0500, Gian Paolo Mureddu wrote:

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>> However for the video drivers, as was said in another post to this

>> thread by Rob, nVidia and ATi are not releasing specs for their

>> hardware for Open Source drivers due to incarnate battle over

>> features, price and performance... I would have to assume that an Open

>> Source driver initiative on at least the kernel end would be

>> tremendously helpful to prevent lockups and ease debugging, not to

>> mention that installing their binary X drivers would be much easier,

>> after all the kernel module pretty much is only a bridge between the X

>> driver and the hardware, the magic is done in the X driver, not the

>> kernel gateway (or am I terribly wrong here?)

>>

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> Unfortunately you are wrong.  The nvidia kernel module contains a full

> OpenGL implementation :-P

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at least the file sizes imply that you are right.

i can guess why they have put it in there ...

but this does change the light in which the driver shines ...
> Lee

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