On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 10:52:33PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Christopher Nelson wrote: > > Did you buy it knowing you were going to use it under linux? If so, > > it's you problem. If not, the answer's simple--don't give them any more > > money and tell us, so we don't give them money until they rectify the > > situation. > > I bought it based on recommendations *on this very list* as well as > pointers *from this list* to sites that recommended it.
Then you could have asked this very list for easier instructions if the ones you got were too confusing. > > No, but the driver and module source are in non-free, and this page: > > http://xoomer.virgilio.it/flavio.stanchina/debian/fglrx-installer.html#install > > lists 4 seperate ways to build the module, none of which seem difficult. > > Sub kernel-source for linux-headers and it should all work smoothly. > > That's the page I was referring to. "none of which seem difficult" tells > me you've never done it. Thank you for proving me right. Actually, I've done it using two of the methods quite easily, the 'make.sh' on a 2.4 kernel and 'make-kpkg' on a 2.6. 'make-kpkg' is exceptionally easy, as I mentioned other places requiring a total of 5 commands (6 if you don't start in /usr/src/) and maybe 7 minutes. unless you're running oldstable, one or the other should work for you. > > They do address their userbase--the people who want to follow the social > > contract. They also allow the most common 'non-free' things to be done > > easily. What more do you want? > > A little more pragmatism and a little less haughty zealotry. It's not zealotry. There's a reason non-free things are non-free and can't be distributed in the base install. If Debian lost its integrity, I'd be forced to find something else. -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Generated by Signify v1.14. For this and more, visit http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
