Question about nvidia video card

On 10 Feb 2006 10:24:50 -0800, Vilmos Soti staggered into the Black Sun and said:

nForce 1234 is the name for a specific type of Northbridge and Southbridge chipset that's found on quite a few Athlon and Athlon 64 motherboards.

Heck no. The stuff in the official tarball is intended to drive a framebuffer display. The stuff in the tarball you downloaded from nVidia is designed to be used as an X module.

You didn't look at the nVidia tarball very hard. There's a fairly small bit of C code wrapped around a huge blob of binary-only code for the kernel module. nVidia are not allowed to release parts of that binary-only code due to paranoia and lawyers and trade secrets and agreements with people like SGI and so forth. The X server module that nVidia ships is binary-only too, but it runs in userspace and conforms to the X 4.0 ABI, so they don't *have* to release source.

It's not possible to build the evil binary-only module into the kernel. You're going to need to use modules for this thing to work at all.

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