nVidia-96 drivers finally available for Maverick 10.10

[Christopher Chan]

On Thursday, November 04, 2010 09:47 AM, NoOp wrote:
> For those of use with nVidia legacy cards, nVidia have finally produced
> a patched version for this bug:
>
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/626974>
> [ABI change in xorg 1.9 breaks legacy nvidia-96 drivers in Maverick]
>
> See:
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/626974/comments/71>
>> ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/96.43.19/>
>
> I've not had the chance to try it yet, but at least it's a step in the
> right direction. You'd think that nVida would just release the source
> given that this is old technology...
>
>

Who knows how much of it is patent encumbered? Just saying...

AMD did release 3D specs for some of its chipsets so you may have a point...