[Glastonbury] Mandrake 9.2 a warning

tim hall tech at glastonburymusic.org.uk
Mon Nov 10 21:15:14 GMT 2003


Nick,

On Sunday 09 November 2003 11:14, Nick Irwin wrote:
> But I ask you was it accidental, or was it in fact PLANNED? Yes thats right
> my colleagues, after numerous release candidates, they never knew they had
> a problem with nvidia card support? No in fact i bet they did.

The nVidia drivers are not 'free' software, the chances are that Mandrakesoft 
aren't allowed to distribute the drivers with their OS. It's the same with 
Debian and every other distro I know of. AFAIK this is not a problem unique 
to Mandrake.

Can't you get them directly from nVidia?

cheers

tim hall



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