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Nvidia Drops Support For Its Open Source Driver
An anonymous reader writes "While Nvidia is not open-source friendly (despite public outcries over the years), they have traditionally supported the xf86-video-nv driver to provide basic mode setting support and other basic functionality. However, with the 'Fermi' and future products, even that open source support will cease to exist. Nvidia has announced they are dropping this open source support for future GPUs and really ending it altogether. Nvidia's recommendation is to just use the generic X.Org VESA driver to navigate their way to nvidia.com so that they can install the proprietary driver. Fortunately there is the Nouveau project that provides a 2D and 3D video driver for Nvidia's hardware, but Nvidia fails to acknowledge it nor support their efforts in any form."
David Gerard points out that Nouveau is going into Linux 2.6.33.
This doesn't surprise me one bit, when I got my new quad core and was having a ton of problems with 64bit drivers, all I was ever told in the multiple linux forums was that it works on older hardware! So I installed something that would work on my new hardware, Windows Vista! Haven't looked back since, so the linux community can go ahead and stay in the 20th century, I now have Server 08 installed with Desktop Experience and love it. Linux will never be ready for a normal end user.
Most of the whining here is being done by non-users. These are just Lemming trolls that see a chance to generate a little chaos.
There are choices for everyone. If you are a Free Software zealot, you can go about your business and not be bothered by the way nvidia does things. The same goes for those of us that actually appreciate the quality and completeness of the nvidia binary driver.
Most people simply don't care.
The noisiest bunch here has no real interest in this stuff.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
Problem solved.. with only the fanatical FSF zealots still up in arms..
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