Leon Brooks wrote: > On Monday 10 February 2003 05:06 pm, Giuseppe Ghibò wrote: > >>Maybe NVidia, now that they lost the >>crown of faster 3D card even on newer GeForce FX against >>ATI, can think to release freely their drivers freely (which I doubt) >>trying to conquer other markets, like those of Linux >>3D workstations. You can try to ask them... > > > It's a nice thought (and it won't hurt to ask, so I will do that now), but in > the absence of OSS drivers for NVidia, we could rewrite their nforce LAN card > driver and get by with referring to a page at Mandrake that explains how to > deal with NVidia cards.
Why not tell the user during installation??? There are so many complaints about Mandrake supposedly not supporting NVidia hardware, that I propose XFdrake (and this goes for the case on linmodems), something like this: "You are using hardware that is not supported sufficiently by the vendor to provide open-source drivers, and thus Mandrake Linux cannot fully support this hardware in the download edition. Your hardware is however supported fully in the Mandrake Linux packs, and the drivers are available from the MandrakeClub". Use this as an opportunity to advertise commercial packs or the Club, rather than leave the user guessing. 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
