New G4 PB/Radeon 9000 War Stories?

[Geert Janssens]

Markus Deistler wrote:
> Oh, and I looked at Nvidia's homepage, that manufacturer seems to provide
> its own Linux-drivers, too, but even as source, so there is a chance to
> compile it for non-Intel-platforms. That said, nvidia's Linux drivers come
> with their own license, so YDL mustn't distribute those drivers ...; But a
> source-package is much better than 'Linux/x86'-only.

Unfortunatly, this is misleading information also. The so-called source 
packages on Nvidia's website are not truly pure source packages.

Simplified, you could say the Nvidia package consists of a binary 
intel/x86 only core driver, and the source code of a wrapper around this 
core driver. You can compile this source all you want, but the resulting 
wrapper will simply pass on all requests to the core binary-only driver. 
Since this is intel/x86 only, it will fail on all ppc architectures...

So it seems NVidia's not much friendlier than ATI here.

Geert