From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JeCTN-00012E-IY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:58:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 50709E0793; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:56:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out3.smtp.messagingengine.com (out3.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.27]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CFB3E0793 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:56:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.internal [10.202.2.42]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0772FE3B7F for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:56:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:56:56 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: MGUXFF6mMVvY/AZzbb8ndHq5W71xfF7h3t0AHJjVdbSb 1206464215 Received: from [10.6.104.131] (nat-vlan0201.sat4.rackspace.com [64.39.0.39]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id ACD932B1F1 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:56:55 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Linux & Motherboard From: Albert Hopkins To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200803251708.16676.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> References: <200803242343.33944.neodarklight@gmail.com> <200803251518.30543.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <1206453190.28523.5.camel@localhost> <200803251708.16676.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:56:55 -0500 Message-Id: <1206464215.28523.35.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 07017f4b-2f22-4e3f-b35e-c52d4dbbe944 X-Archives-Hash: ca80adc698a75842ecba356e39f2ade5 On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 17:08 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > The nv driver has *no* 3D acceleration and limited 2D acceleration > due > > to nVidia's refusal to release the specs needed to create a decent > OSS > > driver. > > since the nv driver is written by nvidia, who needs specs? The nv driver is crippleware and, without efforts like nouveau, there is no *real* OSS driver that can fully take advantage of the hardware without the specs. -a -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list