NVidia users: The Nouveau project needs your help

Thanasis thanasis at asyr.hopto.org
Mon Dec 31 18:36:20 EET 2007


Hello folks,

the Nouveau project works on free/opensource drivers for the 
NVidia graphics chips. 

As NVidia continously refuses support to opensource community 
and keeps necessary specs secret, we are forced reverse engineer
their binary-only drivers. This is an very complex and time-
consuming job. 

The Nouveau project has developed an special sandbox for the 
binary drivers, which us allows sniff it's communication with
the chip. Several test programs send specific commands to the
driver and record what's send to the chip. This way, spare CPU
time can be used for collecting important data - even for 
non-hackers.

We like to ask all NV users to help us by regularily running
this testing system.

More information can be found on the project page:

* http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FrontPage




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