Linux-PPC NVIDIA accelerated driver

[Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D.]

The short answer is "no".

* NVIDIA offers free downloads of pre-compiled lin-tel drivers but has
nothing for linux-PPC's.  It is my understanding that NVIDIA wishes to
keep the information necessary to build a high performance driver
proprietary. There are various effects to lobby NVIDIA to offer drivers
for linux PPC's.

* The 'nv' driver in XORG-6.6 has 2D but not 3D acceleration. 

* The current 2.6.9 kernel software does not support the riva
framebuffer, which is a problem.

-Joseph
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On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 15:52, a monkey wrote:
> I have an NVIDIA GeForce2 MX video card, and my framerate sucks, since 
> I'm only using the `nv' driver. NVIDIA doesn't make any Linux-PPC 
> accelerated drivers. Any other way to take full advantage of my video 
> cards capabilities? Mac OS X used to take full advantage of its 
> capabilities, and my framerate rocked then, but how do I give it a boost 
> now?
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