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Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 17:35:33 -0200 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: 2.4.13-pre6 breaks Nvidia's kernel module
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On Mon, 22 Oct 2001 jarausch@belgacom.net wrote:

> yes I know, you don't like modules without full sources available.
> But Nvidia is the leading vendor of video cards and all 2.4.x
> kernels up to 2.4.13-pre5 work nice with this module.

So get NVIDIA to release the source code for their driver,
this would allow you to recompile the driver and make it
work again.

Note that once NVIDIA stops selling this model video card
you're stuck with the last supported version of Linux anyway
and won't be able to upgrade.

regards,

Rik
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