-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 dcd wrote: | Hi, | I don't understand why these drivers are excluded. They are a free | download from NVidea, and currently it only hurts the distro that 3d is | so poor in the standard edition. | dcd | | Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: | |> Adam Williamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: |> |> |> |>> On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 10:43, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: |>> |>> |>> |>>>> (13) 3D acceleration: whatever does this refer to? |>>>> why would 3.3.6 give 3D, but not 4.2.0, and why is it "experimental"? |>>>> |>>> |>>> There is no free software 3d acceleration for nvidia in XFree-4, |>>> while there was an experimental one in XFree-3.3. |>>> |>> |>> Personally I think this section should be changed to make it *REALLY* |>> clear that X 3.3.6 really isn't recommended. The wording here could well |>> lead a newbie to choose 3.3.6, thinking it's the best option, whereas it |>> definitely isn't (I know this because it's exactly what I did the first |>> time I installed Mandrake); the 3D acceleration in 3.3.6 is pants anyway |>> and unusable for most things you'd want 3D acceleration for, and 4.2.0 |>> |> |> |> It's tagged "experimental". If people choose it, it's on purpose! |> |> |> |>> is so much better in other areas that everyone should use it unless they |>> have a really pressing reason not to. Perhaps it could make this more |>> clear, and also mention the availability of closed-source drivers for |>> 4.2.0 providing proper 3D support, which would hopefully mean less |>> people would make my mistake. |>> |> |> |> When you buy the powerpack, you have the proprietary drivers in |> the commercial CD's, and I think the drivers are automatically |> installed (it's bad, but too many customers ask for it). |> |> |> |
As I understand it, Mandrake's policy is that the download edition only contains free software (as in open source with few if any exceptions). The NVidia drivers are not provided in a source format (they consist largly of pre-compiled object code), so they do not fit into these restrictions. I do think it would be a major plus for mandrake if the mandrake customized rpms were posted on NVidia's driver page -- even if it's as simple as just renaming the package. I doubt NVidia would object to such a request. I personally use the NVidia provided SRPMs to compile my own (and I have had minor issues with modules getting lost anytime I boot into another kernel and back). -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAj2AB8IACgkQUMkt1ZRwL1N1PQCgiucgm5IdEr5am9oCsHVSwtSp i1QAn01zS/XNIYzfuWtWgUGWhTNMeGuE =PGMj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
