On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 05:38:18PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Wednesday 26 August 2009 16:52:06 Jeff H. wrote: > > Been thinking of switching to Debian. Does it support Nvidia laptop cards? > > The "nv" X11 driver is in the Offical Free-Software-Only Debian package > repository. I think the "nouveau" X11 driver is also being packaged by a DD > but is not in, or scheduled to be in any release of Debian. > > The "nvidia" X11 driver and the kernel module of the same name are part of > the > non-free repository. These packages are second-class citizens; their closed- > source nature makes it impossible to resolve non-packaging issues within > Debian.
There's also the free reimplementation: Nouveau . Though it's currently only in Experimental. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [email protected] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [email protected] | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
