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NVidia releases Linux drivers for X and GL

Posted by Hemos on from the games-are-going-look-nicer dept.

Quite a number of you wrote in with the news that Nvidia has released the drivers for all of their chipsets, TNT2 included. The drivers are X and OpenGL, and are availible under the XFree86 license. To get the stuff, head over here.

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  1. Also note this news fro XFree86 by Jeffrey+Baker · · Score: 4
    This is wonderful news that a first rate hardware vendor has open-sourced the drivers for their flagship product. No drivers for BeOS and other plaforms will spring up soon.

    A related piece of good news for the Linux 3D community is the news from XFree86 that a pre-4.0 build will be available in July 1999. Check it out over at xfree86.org.

    -jwb

  2. Are you listening, Creative Technologies? by Bruce+Perens · · Score: 5
    Creative is an OEM of Nvidia chip sets. Creative, nothing in your sound cards can possibly be as proprietary as Nvidia's 3D chip. Let's please have real Open Source drivers for all of your sound cards, and hardware documentation on the web. Lead the pack, don't be a reluctant follower.

    Thanks

    Bruce Perens

    --
    Bruce Perens.
  3. Excellent move nVidia! by Caballero · · Score: 4
    Dave Schmenk of nVidia deserves a lot of credit for pulling this off.

    Hopefully this will be a good example for other hardware vendors.

    We're moving rapidly towards making Linux into a good 3D workstation!

    - |Daryll