Pigeon wrote:
The problem is not the nvidia or ati binary driver. From their terms
it is ok to redistribute their drivers as long as they're not modified.
The issue now seems to be GPL not allowing distribution along with
non-GPL stuff.
Linux is not pure GPL system. It has small but
..we do have the right to distribute the GPL ati and radeon drivers
under the GPL. This is a very strong reason Nvidea would consider
honoring our question to distribute their proprietary binary drivers
favorably, or watch ATI get all the FGLive business on GPL drivers.
..we need only ask
That may be a problem, that could affect FGLive, too:
http://trends.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/05/15/1451229from=rss
Yup... I'm aware of that just yesterday. For the time being I'll
wait, as evidence shows there are plenty of distros and one or two other
live CD that ships with
So ***ATI*** users, please make sure you try them!
I managed to get (remote) access to an ATI card box, and I am
getting somewhere.
And so, I have proven that fglrx does not work (without much
fiddling) with 0.1 alpha. My apologies :( The good news I've found out
what's missing and
I've tried it in my ATI based laptop (Radeon Mobile 9000 - M9) - but it
didn't work :(
Very much expected :(
I'll e-mail you privately about this ati issue.
Apart from that:
- - I couldn't select my screen size of 1400x1050
I'll add that.
- - I couldn't select the German
Hi Pigeon,
the idea to have a FG-live-CD was great but how you did it is even
greater, my compliments! :-))
I tested it with AMD64 3700, 1 GB RAM, NVidia 6600GT 256 MB
and made 3 long testflights (B1900, C172).
This is what I found (beside all those positive aspects which I can't
mention
I've tried it in my ATI based laptop (Radeon Mobile 9000 - M9) - but it
didn't work :(
Very much expected :(
Now that I think about it again, i should probably make it much much
much more obvious at the X driver dialog prompt.
At the moment it asks if you'd like to change
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