Leon Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
the sound card is an i810 with different PCI numbers so is supported
natively in later kernels
well with different pci ressources, hance the oops in mdk9.0 :-(
I could live with that and so could 95% of my customers.
it seems that some nforce mb use
Ben Reser wrote:
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 03:40:41PM -0500, Greg Meyer wrote:
If we want nVidia to take us seriously we really need to not berate them
unreasonably. Now if someone at Mandrakesoft has already asked and they
said no, I have to wonder why there isn't a movement to just simply
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 12:10:10 +0200
Buchan Milne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
less effort to get a fully-working NVidia card than a
fully-working Radeon card under Mandrake, and ATI now also ships
binary-only drivers for the new Radeons.
Any drivers for the radeon=8500 other than the binary from
Charles A Edwards wrote:
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 12:10:10 +0200
Buchan Milne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
less effort to get a fully-working NVidia card than a
fully-working Radeon card under Mandrake, and ATI now also ships
binary-only drivers for the new Radeons.
Any drivers for the
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 14:45:06 +0200
Buchan Milne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My point was that there isn't really much choice now, to get good all
the features on reasonable cards, you need binary-only drivers,
whether from NVidia or ATI
The problem at ATI is they have released bi drivers Only
On Monday 10 February 2003 11:07 pm, Götz Waschk wrote:
Am Montag, 10. Februar 2003, 09:00:32 Uhr MET, schrieb Narfi Stefansson:
Götz:There must be something missing in your statement, such as you
can only get accelerated AGP with the closed nvidia graphics
drivers or something of that nature.
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 06:25 am, Ben Reser wrote:
I have to wonder why there isn't a movement to just simply not
buy nVidia hardware.
Because the competing (SiS, here in Oz at least) hardware sucks. Sad but true.
Cheers; Leon
On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 01:31, Leon Brooks wrote:
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 06:25 am, Ben Reser wrote:
I have to wonder why there isn't a movement to just simply not
buy nVidia hardware.
Because the competing (SiS, here in Oz at least) hardware sucks. Sad but true.
VIA?
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adamw
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 08:54 pm, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 01:31, Leon Brooks wrote:
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 06:25 am, Ben Reser wrote:
I have to wonder why there isn't a movement to just simply not
buy nVidia hardware.
Because the competing (SiS, here in
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 09:54 am, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 01:31, Leon Brooks wrote:
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 06:25 am, Ben Reser wrote:
I have to wonder why there isn't a movement to just simply not
buy nVidia hardware.
Because the competing (SiS, here in Oz at
Note that apart license issues, since the removing
of netscape 4.7X, we no longer includes in main distrib
packages for which there aren't sources. NVidia
doesn't include them, since even their
multi-distrib .src.rpm includes binary only
files and libraries and were even compiled with old
egcs
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.
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
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On Monday 10 February 2003 09:01 am, Buchan Milne wrote:
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.
Greg Meyer wrote:
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You are using hardware that is not supported sufficiently by the vendor
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On February 10, 2003 09:10, Greg Meyer wrote:
On Monday 10 February 2003 09:01 am, Buchan Milne wrote:
You are using hardware that is not supported sufficiently by
the vendor to provide open-source drivers, and thus Mandrake
Linux cannot fully
Leon Brooks wrote:
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 taking
Am Montag, 10. Februar 2003, 15:24:57 Uhr MET, schrieb Giuseppe Ghibò:
why not taking another NON-NVidia card with supported drivers? If for
the video driver thay probably says that OpenGL drivers contains
code from SGI which can't be redistributed, they have no excuse
for not releasing full
On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 09:37, Buchan Milne wrote:
Ideally this would be true for my Lucent Technologies Winmodem (it's
quite high on the MandrakeClub voting list).
Draks already tells me that my Vortex soundcard has no OSS driver and
consequently no OSS driver (there's a play on words in there)
On Monday 10 February 2003 08:50, Götz Waschk wrote:
Am Montag, 10. Februar 2003, 15:24:57 Uhr MET, schrieb Giuseppe Ghibò:
why not taking another NON-NVidia card with supported drivers? If for
the video driver thay probably says that OpenGL drivers contains
code from SGI which can't be
Am Montag, 10. Februar 2003, 09:00:32 Uhr MET, schrieb Narfi Stefansson:
On Monday 10 February 2003 08:50, Götz Waschk wrote:
The nforce2 would be a really nice chipset for a linux desktop, but
you cannot use non-NVidia graphic boards with this chipset, as the AGP
part isn't supported
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 09:10:20AM -0500, Greg Meyer wrote:
Some of your hardware (insert specific's) is from a vendor that prevents us
from providing full support in the GPL download edition of the Mandrake Linux
Distribution. They have chosen to release their drivers under a proprietary
Ben Reser wrote:
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 09:10:20AM -0500, Greg Meyer wrote:
Some of your hardware (insert specific's) is from a vendor that prevents us
from providing full support in the GPL download edition of the Mandrake Linux
Distribution. They have chosen to release their drivers under
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On Monday 10 February 2003 01:36 pm, Ben Reser wrote:
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 09:10:20AM -0500, Greg Meyer wrote:
Some of your hardware (insert specific's) is from a vendor that prevents
us from providing full support in the GPL download edition
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 03:40:41PM -0500, Greg Meyer wrote:
It is not a violation of the GPL, it is a violation of nVidia's
license, which would allow distribution only with permission.
MandrakeSoft can get permission for the boxed sets, because those are
not redistributable. They can also
Just a note that Mandrake's NVidia module packages that I mentioned in
the other message are also obtainable from the MandrakeClub.
Leon Brooks wrote:
On Sunday 09 February 2003 05:30 am, Preston Cody wrote:
My Problem: I have an Nvidia TNT2, so I need to get the nvidia drivers
from their
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