[Glastonbury] Mandrake 9.2 a warning

[Nick Irwin]

On Monday 10 November 2003 21:15, tim hall wrote:
> 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?
>

I did but it said there was no interface for the kernel i am running (9.2's), 
then it tries to make one using the kernels source (which is installed) and 
it cant so then it tries to download one from nvidias site and fails to find 
anything.

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