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[quote]
Some of the technologies supported in our driver are protected by
non-disclosure agreements with third parties, so we cannot legally
release the complete source code to our driver. It is NOT open source.
We do, however, include source code for the control panel and certain
other public segments. We also actively assist developers in the Open
Source community with their work, so if you absolutely require an open
source driver for your graphics card, we can recommend using drivers
from the DRI project, Utah-GLX project, or others.
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My Radeon 9600 and GeForce 2MX both have excellent 2d support using
the bundled X11 drivers.  The *only* reason to install the drivers
provided by the manufacturers is for 3d support.  Given that the 3d
support would be nonexistant without the OpenGL code, I'm more than
happy to use a partially closed source driver for it.

Sam

On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 22:51:24 +1200, jumbophut <jumbophut at gmail.com> 
> Question for ya -- what happens when the kernel version updates in a
> way that breaks a proprietory driver for an older chipset, and the
> manufacturer decides to only upgrade drivers for newer chipsets?
> After all, it wouldn't be the first time a company discontinued
> support for an older product.