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Originally posted by dhamsaic
Not to sound like a twat, but there has been source available there ever since I got my GeForce2 in March. It's not new. 
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Hmmm. And I installed the 1512 drivers sometime in September. The
ruckus about source code for nVidia drivers is as old as the drivers themselves. Apparently even then the presence of packages labelled "source" did not mean that there actually was complete source code inside, or that if there *was* source code that it wasn't
obfuscated. . So I don't know exactly when things got good...or even if they're actually *good* now. And in fact I had no intention of compiling the nVidia drivers myself, or reading the source code. It's just that believing that the drivers aren't (or weren't) open for inspection by those pervs out there who actually *like* mucking about with C code makes me uncomfortable. (Don't misunderstand: I consider "perv" to be aterm of approbation. :-) )
And juju--I don't see any .debs on the Nvidia site. :-) Is there a later word on this subject than
Mini-HowTo: Getting NVidia's binary-only drivers working with Debian ? Apparently the "most read story Video Subsystems" on Debianhelp is "How do you install the nVidia drivers?" As cool as a lot of things about Deb are, it's hard for me to believe that it's the universal cure for dependencies.