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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Member since:2005-07-06
Sun and nVidia have a commercial arrangement regarding provision of frame buffer hardware. That pays dividends for Sun in two ways: (1) Sun doesn't have to spend money on creating their own fb hardware and drivers, and (2) the options for Sun customers are greatly increased.
OPTIONS!? What options?! the fact that when I mention ATI drivers support on the Solarisx86 yahoo mailing, I'm abused to buggery and told I should spend ANOTHER $400 on purchasing an Nvidia card?
Please, this is yet another pathetic attempt for SUN to justify its existance at consuming oxygen - SUN has done ZIP, and as shown by the lack of uptake of Solaris x86 as as server OR a workstation operating system, and the complete and utter lack of commercial softwrae for the workstation, it screams volumes about the incompetancy of Scott McNealy (the perpetual whiner of Silicon Valley) and his Pony Tail co-hort who seems to be out of touch with reality - People purchase hardware and operating systems to run software; something which SUN seems to have forgotten.
Edited 2006-04-09 04:57
Member since:
2005-07-07
Sun and nVidia have a commercial arrangement regarding
provision of frame buffer hardware. That pays dividends
for Sun in two ways: (1) Sun doesn't have to spend money
on creating their own fb hardware and drivers, and (2)
the options for Sun customers are greatly increased.