XFree86 gone from Fedora Core? WHY!?

[William M. Quarles]

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