Igor Izyumin wrote: > On Thursday 08 August 2002 10:15 pm, Ben Reser wrote: > >>That is not Mandrake's fault. Mandrake doesn't control the kernel. >>They just package it, include a few patches. Changing the driver model >>is something that will take the cooperation of the core kernel >>developers, especially Linus and Alan Cox. > > I'm not faulting Mandrake. I'm saying you can't compare it with Windows > directly. > > >>I still think you're barking up the wrong tree for the issues. >> >>Mandrake has a policy that they don't ship binaries on the GPL CDs. I >>think this is a reasonable policy. They do ship binary drivers, >>depending on the license, in the commercial CD set. > > Yes, it is a reasonable policy. I don't own a CD set, so I can't say what the > quality of it is (I am a "silver" Mandrakeclub member, though). > > >>Fact is most of the newbie users who will have difficultly installing >>these drivers probably are using the commercial CD sets. But even those >>that aren't the Mandrake Club has started packaging some based upon >>requests. For example you can now download RPMs for Nvidia drivers. > > Yes, although some packages in Mandrakeclub seem to be just links to the > manufacturer's RPMs. These don't always work out of the box, from my > experience (example: conexant HCF/HSF modems).
AFAIK from what I tried with conexant modems requires an ACPI kernel (which is not the case of our latest). Bye. Giuseppe.
