Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3605 mails)

[Bruce Marshall <bmarsh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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.

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