Why would you want to play Q3 anyway? ;-)
Rune and Tux Racer, actually! :-P, the driver provided by X is WELL below par (in fact unusable) for openGL games. HOWEVER, I now want it back, at least it damn well worked! :'(
No, the problem is that when they fry the system, you can't debug it. The cause is that they are needlessly restricted.
I get Mark's point, though. It would be a much better idea if NVIDIA left it open for the XFree86/kernel hackers to work on, cos they seem to have a better idea of what they're doing.
Sorry to selfishly steer towards my problem. I still have a seriously fscked X configuration (i.e. it don't work), with no NVdriver module anywhere. So... this module- part of X or part of the kernel? Does the kernel load this module, which is provided by X, or vice versa? I think I'm getting confuZed here.
Am I gonna have to install a kernel from source whether I like it or not now, to get the module back? OR X? How could I find the headers for my existing kernel, if they're not where they're meant to be, so I can rebuild the NVIDIA kernel patch from source?
TIA Ricardo