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by **Panzer Le** » Fri, 02 Mar 2001 23:41:22

I study programming device driver .
Nowadays being interested in graphic chip driver, I can't get
graphic chip manual & driver source code. ( Chip vendors don't provide them
to individuals)
I want geforce2 chip manual & driver, but any other chips manual & driver is
ok.
Please, let me know how to get them.

...and have a nice day.. :-)

by **Vigi** » Sat, 03 Mar 2001 00:15:16

If you could get Nvidia's 'closed source' driver source code, bless you.

Quote:> I study programming device driver . Nowadays being interested in graphic chip driver, I can't get graphic chip manual & driver source code. ( Chip
> vendors don't provide them to individuals) I want geforce2 chip manual & driver, but any other chips manual & driver is ok. Please, let me know how to
> get them.

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by **Kenneth R?rv** » Sat, 03 Mar 2001 00:56:04

Quote:>I study programming device driver .
>Nowadays being interested in graphic chip driver, I can't get
>graphic chip manual & driver source code. ( Chip vendors don't provide
>them to individuals)
>I want geforce2 chip manual & driver, but any other chips manual &
>driver is ok.
>Please, let me know how to get them.

The drivers from nVidia are proprietary, so you can't get the sources for
them, unless you have some really good friends at nVidia... ;)

You can always take a look at the opensourced drivers from the Xfree86
source, available from xfree86.org. These do not support hardware
accelerated openGL, though.
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by **Thomas Tonin** » Wed, 07 Mar 2001 17:07:21

> >I study programming device driver .
> >Nowadays being interested in graphic chip driver, I can't get
> >graphic chip manual & driver source code. ( Chip vendors don't provide
> >them to individuals)
> >I want geforce2 chip manual & driver, but any other chips manual &
> >driver is ok.
> >Please, let me know how to get them.

> The drivers from nVidia are proprietary, so you can't get the sources for
> them, unless you have some really good friends at nVidia... ;)

> You can always take a look at the opensourced drivers from the Xfree86
> source, available from xfree86.org. These do not support hardware
> accelerated openGL, though.

I thought there were some obfuscated ones from nVidia in XFree 3. But
then there is also utah-glx.sourceforge.net who support some matrox,
some ati, some old nvidia, SiS, and S3.

Enough choice, I would say.

Thomas

by **Kenneth R?rv** » Wed, 07 Mar 2001 23:56:24

Quote:>I thought there were some obfuscated ones from nVidia in XFree 3.

I believe you are right - however these are old versions and no good
compared to the newer versions from nVidia. I am currently running the
0.9.6 drivers with GL support, and am getting almost the same framerates in
Linux as in Windos.

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Kenneth R?rvik 91841353/22950312

0875 OSLO home.no.net/stasis

by **Thomas Tonin** » Sat, 10 Mar 2001 07:41:11

> >I thought there were some obfuscated ones from nVidia in XFree 3.

> I believe you are right - however these are old versions and no good
> compared to the newer versions from nVidia. I am currently running the
> 0.9.6 drivers with GL support, and am getting almost the same framerates in
> Linux as in Windos.

I would think that is not because the chip is not used right, but there
is a lot of support code that does 'things right' like pre sort things
to be drawn etc, that nvidia may not like the competition to know about.
But that is just speculation.

For a start in programming the old and slow code may be fine.

Thomas

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