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 rather than have them
install poor quality "experimental" drivers during installation.
Currently the inclusion of the option to install poor 3d drivers is
detrimental to the distibutions reputation. However including a
reference to a free download (albiet, proprietry Software ) would not be
nearly so bad.
Hey! on the upside if enough people then complain to them(NVidea) they
may even fix the drivers.
dcd
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:
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>>> 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!
>>
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>>
>>> 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).
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