From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 17 12:15:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.bezeqint.net (mail-a.bezeqint.net [192.115.106.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D8FF37BA6C for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 12:15:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bsd.net.il (bzq-170-14.bezeqint.net) by mail.bezeqint.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.03.23.18.03.p10) with ESMTP id <0FZG004MGAQR9U@mail.bezeqint.net> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 22:13:39 +0300 (IDT) Received: (from nimrodm@localhost) by bsd.net.il (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA14164 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 22:06:44 +0300 (IDT envelope-from nimrodm) Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 22:06:44 +0300 From: Nimrod Mesika Subject: Re: Xfree86 and the G400 In-reply-to: ; from bokonon@rochester.rr.com on Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 12:38:40PM -0400 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: nimrodm@email.com Message-id: <20000817220644.A14098@localhost.bsd.net.il> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i References: <6381A6A8826BD31199500090279CAFBA106CB5@FOGHORN> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 12:38:40PM -0400, Caleb Land wrote: > Hello, > Scratch my previouse e-mail... it does appear that the driver is > open source (I overlooked the .tar.gz file), but since I don't > have one of those cards, I can't try it out. It is *not* open-source. If you look more carefully you'll see some of the code is in a binary-only library which gets linked to some source code provided. This is the same road nVidia has taken with their new drivers. A single binary library which holds their `secrets' and some minimal source code to let you compile/link it with your specified kernel (otherwise modules are generally not portable across different versions of the OS). Probably good for public-relations too ;) -- Nimrod. http://www.geocities.com/rodd_27 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message