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by **Atanas Gueorguie** » Sat, 28 Oct 2000 04:02:16

Can anyone point me to a location where I can download
the sources for NVidia 0.9-5 drivers source? All I've been
able to find files called *.src.rpm which contain tarballs of
the binaries plus the Makefile. No sources whatsoever.

We are going through a nightmare trying to get 3D
acceleration on a Diamond Viper 550 on an ASUS
motherboard (don't quite remember the model, but
the chipset is 440BX/ZX). The machine is running
Red Hat 6.2 with a 2.2.16 kernel.

If anyone has done anything like that (I saw a number
of earlier posts), please, help.

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Atanas

by **Toby Hayne** » Sat, 28 Oct 2000 04:36:30

> Can anyone point me to a location where I can download
> the sources for NVidia 0.9-5 drivers source? All I've been
> able to find files called *.src.rpm which contain tarballs of
> the binaries plus the Makefile. No sources whatsoever.

Check the NVIDIA ftp site here

ftp://ftp1.detonator.nvidia.com/pub/drivers/english/XFree86_40/0.9-5

There are .tar.gz sources in here. Note that the actual accelerator code is
distributed as object files, but the kernel wrapper is in source If I remember
correctly.

Cheers,
Toby Haynes

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Toby Haynes
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by **ad..** » Sat, 28 Oct 2000 06:23:18

> Can anyone point me to a location where I can download
> the sources for NVidia 0.9-5 drivers source? All I've been
> able to find files called *.src.rpm which contain tarballs of
> the binaries plus the Makefile. No sources whatsoever.
> We are going through a nightmare trying to get 3D
> acceleration on a Diamond Viper 550 on an ASUS
> motherboard (don't quite remember the model, but
> the chipset is 440BX/ZX). The machine is running
> Red Hat 6.2 with a 2.2.16 kernel.
> If anyone has done anything like that (I saw a number
> of earlier posts), please, help.
> --
> Atanas

The kernel drivers are open source, but the GL libraries and glx extension
are closed source.

Adam

by **Mihai Rad** » Tue, 31 Oct 2000 23:47:19

Sorry - it's binary only :(

nvidia's decision

> Can anyone point me to a location where I can download
> the sources for NVidia 0.9-5 drivers source? All I've been
> able to find files called *.src.rpm which contain tarballs of
> the binaries plus the Makefile. No sources whatsoever.

> We are going through a nightmare trying to get 3D
> acceleration on a Diamond Viper 550 on an ASUS
> motherboard (don't quite remember the model, but
> the chipset is 440BX/ZX). The machine is running
> Red Hat 6.2 with a 2.2.16 kernel.

> If anyone has done anything like that (I saw a number
> of earlier posts), please, help.

> --
> Atanas