dexter11 Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 There is a new project on freedesktop.org. Its main goal is to provide 3D acceleration on nvidia cards with an open source DRI driver. It's in very early stages so nothing works yet. Developers needed. Project home page. Required Functionality ToDo list source: hup.hu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 At last! Honestly I have never had the same stability since using closed source drivers (like in terms of months of uptime) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 hurrah! good to see this project is going about it correctly and doing a completely clean room reverse engineer, no room for any litigation. should make a great driver when it's done! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 This has been going for quite a while now, hopefully they can pull it off to the point where nobody needs those awful binary blob drivers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dexter11 Posted November 17, 2006 Author Share Posted November 17, 2006 Guys, this will be a reverse engineered driver. Reverse engineering is a very long process. Unless they get some inner info from nvidia they always be behind the official closed source drivers. Both in supporting new cards and in performance. It will be enough to make a Beryl desktop usable though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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