Re: NVIDEA GeForce2

On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 02:47:31AM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote:
> Sven Luther wrote:
> >On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 01:01:36PM -0600, Ryan Underwood wrote:
> >
> >>Fortunately, though, Debian provides nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source
> >
> >
> >Yeah, but maybe not for long, since there is a motion going on for
> >debian to remove its non-free archive.
> 
> 
> That motion has been floating around for at least 2 years now.  As long as 
> Debian dumps truly "non-free" (proprietary, closed-source) software in the 
> same category with "semi-free" (to use RMS's definition - often just free 
> software with a problematic "don't-charge-anything-for-this" restriction), 
> then I don't see non-free going away in Debian in the near future, as there 
> are too many DD's who aren't willing to throw out the latter to get rid of 
> the former (judging from a recent thread I saw on the issue).

Well, i don't really know, i hope you are right, but then maybe the fact
that mostly non-free removal proponents are posting to debian-vote about
this issue has made me have a wrong perception of it.

> >[snip]
> >
> >Yeah, but even with the above packages, there is often compatibility
> >problems. I don't remember the details, but the proprietary drivers not
> >working, while free driver being ok.
> 
> 
> Ummm, it shouldn't surprise anyone that the XFree86 'nv' driver has fewer 
> problems compared to NV's 'nvidia' driver, simply because the former 
> doesn't *do* much.  :)  'nv' is there just to get you a 2D, unaccelerated X 
> desktop. For performance, 2D and 3D, you *have* to use NV's driver.

Yeah, that could be a solution, still, i believe that it is only cause
of problem if the driver and the server are not built, if not from the
same source, at least from similar framework.

Also, there are issues of the toolchain used to build and other such.

Friendly,

Sven Luther