On 29 July 2010 11:48, Christofer C. Bell <christofer.c.bell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:22 PM, suvayu ali
<fatkasuvayu+linux(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On 29 July 2010 09:39, Bill Davidsen <davidsen(a)tmr.com> wrote:
>> It is a commentary that computers which ran using Fedora drivers in FC6 thru FC9
>> now must use vendor drivers or run in VESA mode. Was that not clear in the above
>> quoted 1st paragraph? Hardware which was new less than four years ago no longer
>> has the same functionality it did.
>>
>
> Maybe Fedora can have a legacy-drivers package which people can use?
Well, that would have to be RPM Fusion, and you might suggest that to
them. Fedora still wouldn't be able to distribute the drivers
because, despite being old, they are still proprietary.
I think legacy proprietary driver packages exist on RPMFusion. I was
referring to some of the complaints about older FOSS drivers working
better on older cards.
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Chris
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Suvayu
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