Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3605 mails)

[Fergus Wilde <fwilde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 01 June 2006 14:24, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Thursday 01 June 2006 09:07, Kevanf1 wrote:
> > Does it have to be a reverse engineered Nvidia driver?  It's a genuine
> > question, I'm not trying to be arsy here.  I really don't know enough
> > on this subject so please forgive me if I ask (what to others would
> > be) a blatantly obvious question.  We have plenty of other drivers
> > doing the same job as proprietary software that has not been reverse
> > engineered...or do we?
>
> Well, a graphics card or any other piece of hardware can be a pretty
> complex thing....    registers to load, instruction sets, etc.   How does
> one find out all that information without doing some reverse
> engineering....?  If the vendor doesn't want to part with that
> information....  a graphics card is just a piece of junk.


Don't buy from that vendor then. Buy from someone a bit more co-operative, 
write to the original company telling them you're not buying their kit and 
why. 


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