Subject: Re: kernel: ldt allocation failed
To: james_m_davies@yahoo.com (James Davies)
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 09:43:52 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), vkire@pixar.com (Kiril Vidimce),
        dmaas@dcine.com (Dan Maas),
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (linux-kernel)
In-Reply-To: <1007717194.1342.1.camel@Lord> from "James Davies" at Dec 07, 2001 07:26:28 PM
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org

> The nVidia kernel drivers are open source. You can get them from
> ftp://ftp.nvidia.com/pub/drivers/english/XFree86_40/1.0-2313/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-2313.tar.gz

The Nvidia drivers are not open source. Please stop pedalling this myth. All
you are doing is risking confusing other unfortunates into buying nvidia
hardware and finding there is no open 3D support.

> bad rep. But the 1.0 series are faster and more stable than their
> windows counterparts- I havn't had one crash, even with a faulty card
> that kills windows constantly. 

So tell me why I keep getting people who remove the Nvidia drivers and have
their machine work. I'm sure some of them are hardware related issues, but
all of them ?

Alan
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