[ale] nvidia news

[Paul Cartwright]

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/03/26/2240250/Nvidia-Drops-Support-For-Its-Open-Source-Driver?from=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2FslashdotLinux+(Slashdot%3A+Linux)

 Posted by timothy  on Friday March 26, @06:50PM 
An anonymous reader writes "While Nvidia is not open-source friendly (despite 
public outcries over the years), they have traditionally supported the 
xf86-video-nv driver to provide basic mode setting support and other basic 
functionality. However, with the 'Fermi' and future products, even that 
open-source support will cease to exist. Nvidia has announced they are 
dropping this open-source support for future GPUs and really ending it 
altogether. Nvidia's recommendation is to just use the generic X.Org VESA 
driver to navigate their way to nvidia.com so that they can install the 
proprietary driver. Fortunately there is the Nouveau project that provides a 
2D and 3D video driver for Nvidia's hardware, but Nvidia fails to acknowledge 
it nor support their efforts in any form." David Gerard points out that 
Nouveau is going into Linux 2.6.33.

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