Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 8th Apr 2006 15:52 UTC, submitted by anonymous
For the first time this year, NVIDIA has officially published new Linux and Solaris display drivers for their GeForce and Quadro products. These drivers, versioned 1.0-8756, bring a couple new features such as GeForce 7600/7900 support as well as a new nvidia-auto-select program. This does mark their first alternative OS official release in nearly four months. No FreeBSD equivalent of these 1.0-8756 drivers are currently available. Phoronix takes a look at these new drivers.
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The GLX_Texture_From_Pixmap extension should be in the next release, so we can have compiz at full speed without the need for Mesa. Atleast NVIDIA have gave people native composite now.
NVIDIA will never opensource there driver, so I dont know why people keep banging on about it. Like NVIDIA really want ATI to see there driver code, that point is good enough on it's own.
/Rant: One more thing, DONT BUY THE LATEST NVIDIA CARD UNTIL YOU KNOW IT'S SUPPORTED. It really annoys me when people think there card works "out of the box" for Linux, dont say it on the box./Rant