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Open source graphic drivers
Its their product, and they should support it with drivers, period. And given the preferences of their consumers in the ever-growing Linux market, open source drivers would be best. Look at NVIDIA drivers. You get the source, but compiling and insmod'ing the driver yields a message about a "tainted kernel".

Writing new BDE Data Source Drivers
Richard B. Gilbert rgilber...@comcast.net comp os vms JF Mezei wrote: http://news.com.com/8301-13580_3-9772788-39.html ATI/AMD have decided to release open source drivers for their graphics cards. This, to help the Linux world which really wnats everything to be open sourced. Perhaps VMS can benefit from this since

Is there an open source version of the Emulex LP900X
The kernel module package includes a 780K binary blob that's linked into the module without the source for it being provided. The GLX .src.rpm package doesn't appear to contain any source. nVidia's drivers are not open source. Bingo. Just a quick question, why are you so against closed source drivers?

ATI Radeon - Open source drivers ?
Charles Sullivan cwsul...@triad.rr.com comp os linux redhat On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 20:01:58 -0700, linuxuser wrote: Hello: the Nvidia Closed source driver has been recently released. It is supposed to fix serious problems, which have been lagging with 2.6 Kernel. I just read that the newly released (late aug 2004)

why no gcc in 9.1 personal?
But there is one absolute requirement: the driver for it must be in full compilable source code. By compilable, just viewable source does not qualify. I need to be able to compile the source and run it with X. The best would be source that's already in X. So basically this is ruling out those boards/chips that the

Fwd: [WarpCast] Theta Band Software and SoundBlaster/Aureal open ...
Just by donating the code you have in your current driver, so we could cut and paste it into the Open ODBC driver format would take the community a long way to where we need to be. I hope you will reconsider. I would be more then happy to set up the project on source forge! But, may be Open Letter better and faster

regulator: consumer driver regulator control ...
Adam K Kirchhoff ad...@voicenet.com comp os linux x On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 22:19:23 +0000, seguso wrote: Hi, I have a nvidia riva tnt2 ultra, but I don't like to install the closed source driver in order to have 3d acceleration in opengl-mesa. But I need it because I am programming a game. Is there some decent video

arch/arm/Kconfig: Make UIO available on ARM architecture
Dan Foster d...@globalcrossing.net comp unix solaris In article <3D34D5C6.2040...@sbcglobal.net>, Dan Green <dangr...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: Does any body know of a project or source code for tape library robotics. I need software that will work at a simple command line interface or that can be called by other

CONFIG_EISA note in Documentation/Configure.help
Tim Smith reply_in_gr...@mouse-potato.com comp os linux advocacy In article <bb4dh3-e22....@clark.harry.net>, Sinister Midget wrote: Recently, there was a discussion in here about whether closed source drivers were kosher in the kernel, and it was pointed out that Linus allowed certain kinds of drivers,

Kubuntu - waarom was Windows ook alweer zo crap?
I understand the reasons behind the closed-source drivers for Linux, and honestly most of the time they work with no problems. Unfortunately there are a few issues that can make it slightly tricky, plus they fall into something of a legal gray area with regards to the GPL. I hope the order has already made its way

LinuxPPS core support.
And the reason is open source drivers. So guys, this is not about zealotry. This is about hardnosed technical decisions where closed-source binary drivers are actually _detrimental_ to Linux because they have a tendency to lock people into setups that aren't good. Whenever somebody says "accept the driver to help

Please sign up petition for open source drivers
Signed-off-by: Liam Girdwood <l...@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> --- drivers/Kconfig | 2 ++ drivers/Makefile | 1 + drivers/regulator/Kconfig | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ source "drivers/ssb/Kconfig" diff --git a/drivers/Makefile b/drivers/Makefile index e5e394a..3d0264e 100644 --- a/drivers/Makefile +++

Good Point source drivers?
Not to mention the video source code. Still, an interesting point. Linus et al need to give the card manufacturers templatized drivers, ample documentation, and phone support, perhaps. Even better: we should support a "Windows Emulation mode" which would allow an .EXE driver to be loaded as a Linux module,

Xorg wil not start, nv module fails to load
The RadeonHD developers haven't actually seen either the HD 3850 or HD 3870 yet, but it's expected that by just adding the correct PCI IDs that these new graphics cards will work with this open-source graphics driver. `---- http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjIwMQ AMD Preparing For Another GPU

Open Source Drivers [continuation of "Borland, bugs in Oracle..."]
I loaded SQL Server 2K, MDAC 2.8, and IBM iSeries Client Access, which installs ODBC drivers to get to our AS/400. However, when I try to create a new system DSN, the only driver in the list is the SQL Server 2K driver. Where are the others? I've never had a problem with these showing up on other Windows servers,

AMD Unveils Its Latest Open-Source Drivers, Plans
Why should I trust a binary driver from some vendor? Lexmark wants me to "su" and install an RPM to get one of its printers to work with Linux. Why should I trust them? What is wrong with an open source package? Why should I install a driver from some random company, or even a big one (*Sony*)?

Open Source Drivers for AMD/ATI Cards Improve Further in ...
Your stuck trying to use old drivers, or find an open source alternative, that might have been neglected as they where not used a lot. Your forced to buy a new card, no doubt from a company that only do closed source drivers. It's the old Windows cycle: update software and then hardware just to run the new software

video card for amd64
1.76/arch/i386/Kconfig Wed Sep 10 08:41:39 2003 +++ edited/arch/i386/Kconfig Tue Sep 23 11:42:49 2003 @@ -1175,61 +1175,14 @@ endmenu -source "drivers/base/Kconfig" - -source "drivers/mtd/Kconfig" - -source "drivers/parport/Kconfig" - -source "drivers/pnp/Kconfig" - -source "drivers/block/Kconfig" - -source

possible X bug w/ nVidia 96.43.05 driver +slack 12?
Nvidia is legally unable to release source for their drivers, and I think we should be happy that they want to support FreeBSD at all. There is no legal or moral obligation for them to release specs for their cards or open-source drivers. The fact that they are releasing drivers at all is enough for me (and most

Windows Update Sending Private Data to MS
Regarding step 5; if the information is already "out there" (other open source drivers, leaked onto the internet, etc) then it is fair game and we can use it. With somebody like Intel, it is pretty important to get this in some form of writing. They have a horrible habbit of "forgetting" things that are "too hard"