:(((((((

when will I see a native linux kernel module for Nvidia based cards? I'm sick of the nvidia.com one.
Is there a possibility of making one in the near future? Hasn't nvidia given out any documents for their cards?

If they had I have a feeling that a billion and 1 coders would've swarmed upon it and coded something up, or nvidia would've just released the proper source code.

Unfortunately, I believe they're still sitting comfortably with a geforce4 up their butts, keeping them nice and warm.

If you want you can send them a nice, polite letter (as angry/emotional ones are likely to do more harm then good) explaining why you feel the current state of affairs is wrong and why they should correct it (and how).

Martin's distress was in contrast to the bitter satisfaction of some
of his fellow marines as they surveyed the scene. "The Iraqis are sick
people and we are the chemotherapy," said Corporal Ryan Dupre. "I am
starting to hate this country. Wait till I get hold of a friggin' Iraqi.
No, I won't get hold of one. I'll just kill him."
	- http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2479.htm

Feel free to take the open-source 'nv' driver from the XFree86 4.3.0 tree and figure out how to put it into the kernel. Figuring out how to splice the licenses is the tricky part. ;)

That's +/- what rivafb already is. I have a version in my tree that has some more updates from XFree that I intend to submit after 2.4.21

Ben.