-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 N Smethurst wrote: > Le Mercredi 5 Mars 2003 01:26, jokerman64 a écrit : > > If these useless drivers were not included, the user would have to use VESA. > That is the whole point of not including them until they work. After that, > it would be up to the user whether to install the nvidia binary drivers or > not.
But they work great for GeForce2/3 ... so it would be better to use nv on them and only vesa on GeForce4. > > However, considering the agony I experienced of staring at a monitor running > at some horrible refresh rate, I would suggest that Mandrake try to assist > users with nvidia cards (and users of the the newer ATI cards and any other > cards) to download the binary drivers and install them correctly. They do > not have to be included in the distribution, but at least the distribution > could provide some form of help (even if it is just a little bit of > information and a link or two to the relevant downloads/tutorials on the > web). > AFAIK, Mandrake Club members, if they setup the urpmi club source with drakfw should be able to just rerun XFdrake. If not, then at most all the will need to do is install NVIDIA_GLX and NVIDIA_kernel from the club, and then run XFdrake. > Go and look at the most voted rpm in the club. Users want help installing > these drivers, so if they cannot be included in the distro due to licencing > problems, at least users should be helped to download them and install > them, instead of providing them with drivers that are not yet finished and > consequently don't work properly. > Also remember that the NVidia drivers are included on all commercial sets, and work out-the-box. For those who really don't want to give Mandrakesoft any financial contribution until their display card works, I may update http://ranger.dnsalias.com/nvidia_me for 9.1. Then again I may not. Users paid NVidia good money for a card like a GeForce4Ti. NVidia should be the one ensuring their hardware is well supported for their users. If you have paid Mandrakesoft for the distro (either via club or buying a set), setup is trivial. If not, you need to consider whether you want to support proprietary softare (like the NVidia drivers) with your money (by buying NVidia cards), or whether you want to support free software (via Mandrakesoft). It's up to users, Mandrakesoft has done more than their part. Buchan - -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+Zdd8rJK6UGDSBKcRAjf0AKCGx3/AH7BSrnsM01WaNjnHXosQXwCgpIOR yrMfazgZ5HMB3YzCsnpnPY0= =j8Co -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
