Re: [MLUG] nvidia tnt2 agp, geForce IV 4200 AGP 128 MB cards under Linux?

[Mark Haidekker <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Monday 05 August 2002 12:53 pm, you wrote:
> >Also, the nvidia Linux drivers, albeit not GPL, are open source!
>
> no they're not.  there's a kernel module (with source available) that
> provides the hook for direct hardware access to the nvidia cards, but
> it's just the needed kernel api stuff.  the actual opengl driver that
> interacts with this kernel module is binary-only with a restrictive
> license.
>
>      ryan woodsmall
>         EMAIL:PROTECTED

I checked. You need to load two parts, the kernel module and the GLX driver. 
Both are available as source tarballs. Maybe it's not Open Source (the GPL 
way), but I'd call this open source.

Mark
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