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Subject: Re: kernel: ldt allocation failed
From: James Davies <james_m_davies@yahoo.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 19:43, Alan Cox wrote:
> > 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.

I wan't trying to state that it is GPL or similar, but the kernel driver
source code IS available for free under a restrictive license. the GLX
drivers are closed. 

> > 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 ?

I can't comment on the stability in all configurations, but I've found
them to work quite well with my box since 1.0 came out. the 0.9 serious
were notorious for crashing though.
 
> Alan



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