NVidia users: The Nouveau project needs your help

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NVidia users: The Nouveau project needs your help
\ Enrico Weigelt (31 Dec 2007)

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Subject:	NVidia users: The Nouveau project needs your help
Group:	Gentoo-user
From:	Enrico Weigelt
Date:	31 Dec 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

Please also consider signing the petition:

* http://www.petitiononline.com/nvfoss/

cu
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