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NVIDIA's Andy Ritger On Linux Drivers

Posted by kdawson on from the straight-dope dept.

tykev writes "The Director of Unix Software at NVIDIA talks about Linux drivers, planned features, development cycle, and the open source Nouveau driver. (The interview is in English but all the comments are in Czech.) Quoting: 'NVIDIA's stance is to neither help nor hinder Nouveau. We are committed to supporting Linux through a) an open source 2d "nv" X driver which NVIDIA engineers actively maintain and improve, and b) our fully featured proprietary Linux driver which leverages common code with the other platforms that NVIDIA supports.'"

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  1. Eat my goatse'd penis! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Frosty Goatse Piss

  2. Time for a flame fest by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Binary vs. open drivers. I say we ask Tiger Woods.

  3. please help by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    my mom has a myspace page....which is like soooo embarrassing!!!! please troll her into getting rid of it....thanks

                    http://www.myspace.com/amandagrashel

    alex

  4. Drivers for Syncing by Doc+Ruby · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    So far I've never plugged any HW into my Ubuntu PCs without finding at least a proprietary driver that delivers at least the main functions, except an X3d "3DWorld" VGA/glasses system that seems totally orphaned. But I don't use other exotic HW, or even push the limits of the OS with gaming.

    What I do lack is sync "drivers" for Evolution. I want to sync across the LAN with apps on Windows. And most important, I want to sync with my SonyEricsson K750 phone. I want to sync my calendars, contacts, and media files, including phone SMS'es as Evolution memos and Evolution email (from a single folder) as some kind of phone text item. I also want to import my old Palm Pilot calendar, contects and memos into Evolution (or the K750, then sync that with Evolution).

    Usually OS connections to devices develops slower than app connections, because OS development is slower and has so many other focuses. Evolution seems pretty badly interconnected to other apps, especially on other OS'es, especially on mobile devices.

    Or am I just missing a treasure trove? FWIW, the "MultiSync" project is pretty dead, and never worked as easily as a driver (for either the OS or for Evolution).

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    make install -not war

  5. nVidia's Buggy Closed-Source Drivers by BillGatesLoveChild · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    One thing that seriously blows about nVidia is their (closed-source) drivers are buggy. e.g. the nv4_disp infinite loop bug. This is year sold, affects many generations of cards, and nVidia *still* haven't fixed it. Fixed it? You can't even talk to them about it. They don't answer any tech support questions: Their forums are user-to-user. If this driver was open source, someone would have fixed it by now. It'd be quicker than the black-box game people have played to fix it.

    Read it and weep:
    http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=4432& st=80
    http://www.christopherjason.com/articles/nvidia-nv 4disp-problem/
    http://fileforum.betanews.com/review/950852325/1/v iew
    http://forums.2cpu.com/archive/index.php/t-10410.h tml
    http://www.tech-forums.net/pc/f77/3d-games-kill-my -pc-need-advice-111501/

    I'll share my fix for the nVidia nv4_disp infinite loop bug.

    1. Shut down windows.
    2. Power off PC.
    3. Remove nVidia card.
    4. Throw in trash.
    5. Install ATI card.