Geoff - > Is there a simple reason why the "commercial distros" are able to do > this ? Maybe they are using non-GPL software that we would not wish to > see in Debian.
Me newbie cannot see the difference - it seems not a problem of proprietary drivers (many of the video cards' are that in any case, as the chips are firmware) - as much I can see is that both Debian and Mandrake, for instance, use the same "nv" driver for the Nvidia TNT2 chip (one of the bones of contention). Then why couldn't we arrive at having the full high resolution scale working with the monitor(s) ? There, the spec.s and interfaces are broadly open, so that's no so much of an issue. </sigh> // Heimo Claasen // <hammer at revobild dot net> // Brussels 2003-09-01 The WebPlace of ReRead - and much to read ==> http://www.revobild.net - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
