New G4 PB/Radeon 9000 War Stories?

[Markus Deistler]

Hi,

Geert Janssens wrote:

>> Oh, and I looked at Nvidia's homepage, that manufacturer seems to provid=
e
>> 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 co=
me
>> with their own license, so YDL mustn't distribute those drivers ...; But=
 a
>> source-package is much better than 'Linux/x86'-only.
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> Unfortunatly, this is misleading information also. The so-called source
> packages on Nvidia's website are not truly pure source packages.

I didn't look that close at it, it's a pity. I understand that nvidia/ati
aren't keen on publishing their driver's source for the most current
hardware, because they are competitors ...; But I don't understand why they
don't simply build binaries for PPC, shouldn't be a big issue because they
develop drivers for MacOS9/X anyway...; So everybody with current
Mac-hardware has to wait until xfree86 provides a driver and YDL will never
have a chance of supporting the most current machines.

Markus.





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