XFree86 gone from Fedora Core? WHY!?
William M. Quarles
walrus at bellsouth.net
Mon May 24 23:42:59 UTC 2004
Peter Boy wrote:
> Am So, den 23.05.2004 schrieb Brian Hartman um 22:56:
>
>>~ My main gripe is that nvidia support seems to have vanished.
>
>
> I don't think so. nvidia cards are supported by the free (xorg) nv
> driver, just as in XF86 before. The driver will get installed by
> anaconda it it detects a nvidia adapter. Works fine here with x86_64.
>
The nv driver is not a DRM driver. Does nVidia still have drivers
available from their website?
> The free driver is missing some (or better: a lot of) features which are
> supported by the binary-only nvidia driver. This driver currently
> doesn't work in core 2 due to a kernel issue (4gb problem, i386 only),
> not due to a xorg problem. For details you should search the archiv.
>
Last time I looked (~1 year ago) nVidia made their driver open source.
You could even compiled it yourself on your computer. Their license
probably restricts redistribution.
Peace,
William
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