Package: install-doc Version: N/A; reported 2002-04-06 Severity: normal In section 2.6.1 of the Woody installation manual that can be found at
http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/i386/install.en.txt it says | Some hardware manufacturers simply won't tell us how to write drivers | for their hardware. Others won't allow us access to the documentation | without a non-disclosure agreement that would prevent us from | releasing the Linux source code. One example is the Nvidia graphics | chips used in many newer consumer 3D graphics cards. Other graphics | vendors such as ATI and Matrox do provide information. | | Since we haven't been granted access to the documentation on these | devices, they simply won't work under Linux. You can help by asking | the manufacturers of such hardware to release the documentation. If | enough people ask, they will realize that the free software community | is an important market. which is just plain wrong (or really outdated), as even nVidia cards work out-of-the-box with XFree 4.1.x without the need to install the drivers provided by nVidia on their website. Specifically, http://www.xfree86.org/4.1.0/Status22.html says | 22. NVIDIA | | [...] | | 4.1.0: | | Support (accelerated) for the Riva 128, 128ZX, TNT, TNT2 (Ultra, | Vanta, M64), GeForce (DDR, 256), GeForce 2 (GTS, Ultra, MX), | GeForce 3, Quadro, and Quadro2 is provided by the "nv" driver. | | Summary: | | All chipsets supported in 3.3.6 except the NV1 are also | supported in 4.1.0. Support for the newer chips (GeForce2 and | later) is only available in 4.1.0. which means that "they simply won't work under Linux" is bogus, but may prevent people who already own a nVidia graphics card from installing and using Debian, which seems rather counterproductive to me, whether they're using hardware that isn't free-as-in-speech (but that DOES work in Debian) or not... -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux www 2.2.20 #1 SMP Thu Mar 21 15:53:43 CET 2002 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
