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(a)snafu.de>