Re: LCD monitor, DVI connection, resolution problem

bowman <bowman@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

iforone wrote:

So -- is that to imply that the maintainers of open source software are
now beholden to the whims of some closed-source software that was
written for proprietary hardware ??

No, it implies a video driver provides a known interface, whether it is open
source nv, proprietary Nvidia, ATI, or whatever. Nvidia supplies modules
that fulfill the interface contract.

You've gotten it backwards. The kernel provides the interface. If
the interface changes, drivers must be updated.

Nvidia are usually rather quick to update their drivers for new kernel
versions, and they provide a glue layer as source so minor changes
only require a recompile. That's all much better than many vendors
with closed source drivers.

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Måns Rullgård
mru@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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