Niels Weber said: > I have never ever been abe to install any redhat graphically with a > geforce card (tried geforce 2 mx, geforce 2 go, geforce 4 ti 4200, > different monitors, different computers, btw: a tnt2 worked without > problems), neither 8.0 nor 9 nor fedora. After the text based install > I've never been able to get X to run. I always had to get the binary > nvidia drivers to get X to run. Have you ever put these problems in bugzilla? [snip] > Redistribution of the nvidia-driver is allowed. Wouldn't it be possible > (perhaps as an extra ISO-image or whatever) to allow the use of the > binary driver from installation on? I understand that RedHat cannot > support that driver but as it's now fedora and that isn't supported > anyway, support issues shouldn't be a concern, or am I wrong there? Distributing binary-only drivers is opposed to the goals of the Fedora Project: http://fedora.redhat.com/about/objectives.html "Build the operating system exclusively from open source software." -- William Hooper
