nVidia Unified Drivers Including Linux/FreeBSD

Screaming Lunatic writes "nVidia has decided to include Linux and FreeBSD in their Unified Driver Architecture and offer more tech support. Sounds like great news for Linux developers and users if Linux drivers are released at the same time as Windows drivers. (The NV30 emulation driver for Linux was made available about 3 months later than for Windows) The big push is probably from big studios that use Linux tools such as Film Gimp. More info here ." Added by Heunique: You might want to look here if you are using the latest development kernel.

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[TechnoVooDooDaddy]

WOOOT!!!!!!!!

man, i thought ATI was going to take over nVidia, but with this crazy open-source support nVidia is doing, it's going to be difficult to NOT support them in turn.

Scratching my back is a damn good way to get me to scratch yours, WTG NVIDIA!

Re:Great news? Or bad news?

[Keck]

Please point me to WORKING nvidea drivers for a non intel/amd architecture.......

Umm. right. point me to someone with an IQ over room temperature who bought a non intel/amd architechture + an nvidia card with gaming in mind. I agree that the driver source would be much better, esp in light of the changes regarding exporting the entire symbol table to modules upcoming in linux 2.6, but nvidia is doing a great job of recognizing our 'demographic' and doing *something* to support it. I honestly can't think of a business justification for them to release the source for those drivers, I really can't. They're in a cut throat business, and if you ahve the source to their drivers the cat's out of the bag. You're technically right that they don't support 'linux' in all it's ported architechtures, but they are doing a good job supporting the most used ones. My Ti4200 arrives Thursday; good frame rates here I come.