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Nvidia Drops Support For Its Open Source Driver

Posted by timothy on from the let-them-eat-text dept.

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.

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  1. Bad move.... by Itninja · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does Nvidia not know there are literally dozens of Linux users out there clamoring for a stable, high-end gaming environment?

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    1. Re:Bad move.... by smash · · Score: 2, Funny

      I predict a number of Mac Pro sales to that company.

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  2. Re:First by sys.stdout.write · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wow, you've managed to fail time-wise, humor-wise, and punctuation-wise! :-)

    Whoops, didn't read your signature. I meant "humour."

  3. Re:So buy intel video cards by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It looks as good as on an ATI/Nvidia card so far...
    Hang on.. frame 2 is coming up.. yup still looks good.

  4. Re:Huh? by einhverfr · · Score: 2, Funny

    What does that mean? Is the "X.Org VESA driver" now a web browser?

    Only if it is installed as part of EMACS.....

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  5. Re:So buy intel video cards by moosesocks · · Score: 3, Funny

    IANAL, but the Mono business has been cleared up (unless there are non-Microsoft patents lurking somewhere).

    A legally-binding decision not to sue is a legally binding decision not to sue. No respectable judge would even agree to hear the case unless you decided to rip off some bit of code that Microsoft didn't release.

    Mono is safe. Stop spreading this BS.

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  6. Re:So buy intel video cards by MightyYar · · Score: 4, Funny

    Or that any graphics intensive games will work with.

    Games... right... wasn't this a Linux discussion? Games threads belong in discussions attached to Mac stories!

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  7. Re:So buy intel video cards by Shikaku · · Score: 2, Funny

    I did, and all I got was paper thrown at me. On the paper it was noted that microsoft has been cutting back a lot and they only have paper for chairs so he threw a piece of his at me.

  8. Re:So buy intel video cards by chromas · · Score: 2, Funny

    Like a paper chair-plane?