Yes, the NVidia drivers from nvidia.com are closed source, as they are
using OpenGl from a 3rd party so they don't fully own the drivers. But
they do support up to the Geforce 3 and I hear they are possibly going
to be released with 7.1. And the beta quality is pretty decent.
Lance
On 07 Apr 2001 18:41:14 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On 7 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Geforce 2 GTS works fine with me, the drivers from NVidia's website work
> > pretty sweet as well too.
> >
> > Lance
> >
> > On 07 Apr 2001 00:56:06 -0500, Avi Aumick wrote:
> > > One of my video cards just died on me. I had a 3dfx Voodoo 3000. Since
> > > 3dfx is no longer in business I would prefer to not find a Voodoo card to
> > > replace it with, even if one could be found. I have been looking at cards
> > > with the nvidia Geforce 32M and Geforce2 GTS cards. I am runniing Redhat
> > > 6.2 and XFree86-3.3.6-20. Any recommendations or things to look out for?
>
> But you'll need to upgrade to XFree86-4.0.1 or later. I'm not sure how
> easy that is for RH6.2. If you go this way, you might want to upgrade to
> RH7.
>
> For the record, GeForce cards don't have 3D drivers as part of XFree86,
> only 2D. The NVidia drivers are closed source. Somebody from RedHat will
> probably point this out and recommend a card that has an open source
> 3D driver, but I can't recall which one just now.
>
> Matthew Saltzman
>
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