On Aug 09, Tim Hull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's actually not just ATI/nVidia - most wireless drivers are at least in
part non-free. In my case, it's the madwifi drivers with their binary HAL.
There's also the ipw2100/2200/3945/etc with the non-free firmware. Without
The firmwares are not
I demand that Marco d'Itri may or may not have written...
On Aug 09, Tim Hull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's actually not just ATI/nVidia - most wireless drivers are at least in
part non-free. In my case, it's the madwifi drivers with their binary
HAL. There's also the ipw2100/2200/3945/etc
On 09/08/07, Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The objection is making it a priority over supporting free drivers or
diverting people working on supporting vendors who provide DFSG free
drivers by making it a distribution wide priority.
The free drivers are perfectly well supported as
On Thu, 09 Aug 2007, Ben Goodger wrote:
I can outline precisely what needs to be done to make nvidia-glx,
for example, bearable[1] (and it does not involve a specialised GUI,
god forbid) but am in no position at all to do so :(
Sure you are! Outlining exactly what needs to be done and filing
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 10:34:01PM +0100, Ben Goodger wrote:
I'm grossly underqualied in that respect, I fear. I can outline precisely
what needs to be done to make nvidia-glx, for example, bearable[1] (and it
does not involve a specialised GUI, god forbid) but am in no position at
On 08/08/2007, Ben Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ben Goodger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Simplifying the installation of non-free graphics card drivers
should also be a priority, though not to the extent Canonical are
currently planning.
I strongly disagree. The installation of non-free
Oh, for the love of god, not more of this...
If these (read: nvidia/ati) drivers were DFSG-compliant, they'd be
included by default. Since this is not possible, it should be made as easy
as possible to install them. The only thing is to ensure that it remains an
opt-in, since people must
On Wed, 08 Aug 2007, Ben Goodger wrote:
On 08/08/2007, Ben Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Individual developers can work on non-free to their heart's
content, but it should not get any priority from the Debian
project.
If these (read: nvidia/ati) drivers were DFSG-compliant, they'd be
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