Posted on Saturday, March 27 2010 @ 0:50 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
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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