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On Thursday 04 May 2006 7:35 am, S. Schwartz wrote: |
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> Richard Fish wrote: |
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> > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127618 |
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> |
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> Thanks for the link, very interesting indeed. |
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> |
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> In comment #18 someone says that Nvidia won't release a newer legacy |
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> driver set any time soon, whereas in the nVNews-forum someone from |
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> NVIDIA Corporation announced that an updated legacy graphics driver is |
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> planned for the near future. That one should match 1.0-8756. |
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> |
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> Sounds pretty bad and good at the same time. Still: isn't someone of the |
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> Gentoo-guys (experienced in patching) able to patch the old 6629 for the |
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> time being or do I simply underestimate the effort? |
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> |
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> Sigi |
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Nvidia dont release the source for this driver, which makes it difficult for |
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others to patch it, even if they new how the card internals worked ;). Does |
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the xorg nv driver do what you need? |
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-- |
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"A mystic is a person who is puzzled before the |
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obvious but who understands the nonexistent." |
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[Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) |
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American author, editor, publisher] |
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