Scott van Looy wrote: > The point Les appears to be missing is that the binary blob doesn't stay > the same because the cards it supports don't stay the same. And as > NVidia upgrade their hardware, they'll slowly stop supporting the older > hardware. I'm not convinced that is a correct or valid statement. I'm running a system with a TNT2 card from NVidia that I bought sometime in 2000 or 2001. This hardware has not be produced in a long time. The drivers are still available and fixes are made in the "NVidia Legacy GPU Channel".