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 1JeCM3-0000X2-HM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:50:31 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AD1BEE0784; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:50:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 863BEE0784 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:50:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19E5D66FD2 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:50:29 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -0.002 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.002 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.003, BAYES_50=0.001] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 1x1TxeUmFuV9 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:50:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pd2mo3so.prod.shaw.ca (idcmail-mo1so.shaw.ca [24.71.223.10]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5F2566F7B for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:50:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pd4mr4so.prod.shaw.ca (pd4mr4so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.215]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0JYA0083CPEEQDF0@l-daemon> for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:49:26 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml4so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.148]) by pd4mr4so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) with ESMTP id <0JYA00183PEEJ820@pd4mr4so.prod.shaw.ca> for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:49:26 -0600 (MDT) Received: from xenon.badcomputer.org ([68.148.98.184]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0JYA001T9PEDL840@l-daemon> for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:49:25 -0600 (MDT) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:48:20 -0600 From: darren kirby Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Linux & Motherboard In-reply-to: <200803251708.16676.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <200803251048.20972.bulliver@badcomputer.org> Organization: Badcomputer Org. 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 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline References: <200803242343.33944.neodarklight@gmail.com> <1206453190.28523.5.camel@localhost> <200803251708.16676.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 X-Archives-Salt: 71366903-eb80-4039-9484-f627e605d08b X-Archives-Hash: ca43c0c6c5a9a027ff42a0ec3195bdbd quoth the Volker Armin Hemmann: > > 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? I thought the Xorg folks wrote the nv driver? -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list