libxnvctrl status?

Adam Jackson ajax at redhat.com
Tue Feb 4 16:37:13 UTC 2014


On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 12:34 +0100, Simone Caronni wrote:

> Well, the "tools" are totally opensource and can be built standalone,
> libXNVCtrl will interface with the Nvidia X.org driver; but what is
> the benefit of having them in Fedora if they can't be used without the
> proprietary blobs?

Well, since X is a network protocol, there's no reason the blob you're
controlling needs to be running on the same machine as Fedora.  Why
should Fedora _not_ be able to speak X11 fluently over the network?

I don't have time for the package tbh, I'm happy to hand it over if
someone wants it.

- ajax




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