Am Do, den 23.10.2003 schrieb William Hooper um 22:58: > 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? No, I haven't so far. I have thought about it and searched for geforce related problems in bugzilla. There were quite a few but most seem to be answered along the lines of "yeah, we know but as nvidia is evil it's your fault you bought something from them". (Ok I know, the answers aren't linke that. I don't want to put down the good work of you guys at redhat.) > [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." There are other programs in fedora with non OSI compliant licenses, what about them? I was talking about a different ISO image for a reason. It should be marked as a non official ISO that doesn't really belong to fedora and is just provided to make installation easier for some people. -- Niels Weber <nath@xxxxxxxx>
