Richard Houser wrote:
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).
No more exceptions.
The NVidia drivers are not provided in a source format (they consist
largly of pre-compiled object code),
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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
020909 Adam Williamson wrote:
On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 20:12, Buchan Milne wrote:
AFAIK, this option (3d acceleration for 3.x)
only appears in an expert install off the GPL edition,
so IMHO, the user asked to be treated like an expert.
Experimental should be good enough?
Ah, in that case it's
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,
On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 10:09, Philip Webb wrote:
i've been using Mandrake for 2 years ( 6.1 , 8.0 briefly, 8.2 , 9.0rc1 ),
but i have no idea what the strengths or weaknesses of 3.3.6 4.2.0 are.
Well, here's a quick summary - 4.2.0 is good, and 3.3.6 is rubbish.
There may be a test later.
On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 10:51, 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?
Quoting Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
020909 Adam Williamson wrote:
as the subscriber who first raised this, i can only agree with 1st-time AW.
there are degrees of expertise, very wide ones:
i've been using Mandrake for 2 years ( 6.1 , 8.0 briefly, 8.2 , 9.0rc1 ),
but i have no
Le Mardi 10 Septembre 2002 13:23, dcd a écrit :
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.
Do you ever heard mdk policy about software licenses ?
BTW,
Guillaume Rousse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Le Mardi 10 Septembre 2002 13:23, dcd a écrit :
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.
Do you ever
Ooops! damn foot in mouth again.
Rephrase that, to what I meant, instead of what I said. (Yes I do
know the definition of FREE )
Wouldn't it be a better policy to refer people to, or notify them of,
the availability of the Nvidea 3D drivers,
and install the current XFree86 4.2.. drivers
Le Mardi 10 Septembre 2002 15:43, Götz Waschk a écrit :
Am Dienstag, 10. September 2002, 20:53:45 Uhr MET, schrieb dcd:
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
Am Dienstag, 10. September 2002, 20:53:45 Uhr MET, schrieb dcd:
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.
You are either a troll or you don't understand the
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
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Adam Williamson wrote:
| On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 10:43, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
| 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
On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 20:12, Buchan Milne wrote:
AFAIK, this option (3d acceleration for 3.x) only appears in an expert
install off the GPL edition, so IMHO, the user asked to be treated like
an expert. Experimental should be good enough?
Ah, in that case it's less of an issue - wasn't aware
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