VIA is a mess - I don't buy boards with VIA chipsets.
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 11:47:23 -0500
Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thursday 06 February 2003 11:19, brett holcomb wrote:Do you mean Nvidia's chips? If so they, like others (ATI)I was refering to the nForce chipset based mother boards.
are not "fully" open source as part of the driver package
is binary.
I'm not blaming Nvidia one bit. I believe they have the right to protect intellectual property My worry was if I reinstall on an nForce based board, will I be able to get my on-board nic running or will I need to add another nic untill Ica emerge the nvidia drivers. A real life saver might be to have the nforce nic driver on the live CD, though that might be a sticking point.
I agree that they do a good job of updating their drivers. I only wish VIA paid as much attention to Linux users.
I'd like to have nothing but open source on my system but
there are some things where it is not yet practical.
Video drivers are one area, apps like Crossover, VMware,
etc. are not opensource but may be neccessary for people
since Wine can't do what they will and people still need
to get a job done.
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