On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 3:36 AM, James P. Wallen wrote:
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> On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
>>
[snip]
>> Once you've got the hardware, you might as well use it, even if it
>> requires
>> non-free drivers. The manufacturer has already got their cut of what you
>> paid; you
On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
And I claim he would be better off using a card that doesn't use firmware[1]
or uses free firmware, since non-free firmware is an issue for distributors
and it's relatively easy to "accidentally" participate in distributing
software in vio
On Monday 26 April 2010 20:27:14 Celejar wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:03:07 -0500
> "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote:
> > On Monday 26 April 2010 16:34:36 Celejar wrote:
> > > On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:16:32 -0500
> > > "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote:
> > > > On Monday 26 April 2010 15:09:57 Celeja
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:03:07 -0500
"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote:
> On Monday 26 April 2010 16:34:36 Celejar wrote:
> > On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:16:32 -0500
> > "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote:
> > > On Monday 26 April 2010 15:09:57 Celejar wrote:
> > > > What makes the non-free firmware question
On Monday 26 April 2010 16:34:36 Celejar wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:16:32 -0500
> "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote:
> > On Monday 26 April 2010 15:09:57 Celejar wrote:
> > > What makes the non-free firmware question particularly interesting is
> > > that the alternative is often to hardcode the
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:16:32 -0500
"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote:
> On Monday 26 April 2010 15:09:57 Celejar wrote:
...
> > What makes the non-free firmware question particularly interesting is
> > that the alternative is often to hardcode the functionality into the
> > hardware. Now, if you
On Monday 26 April 2010 15:09:57 Celejar wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:03:24 -0400
> "James P. Wallen" wrote:
> > On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Celejar wrote:
> > > On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 09:53:27 -0400
> > > "James P. Wallen" wrote:
> > >> Heck, I haven't even installed the non-free firmware to make
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:03:24 -0400
"James P. Wallen" wrote:
>
>
> On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Celejar wrote:
> > On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 09:53:27 -0400
> > "James P. Wallen" wrote:
> >
> > ...
> >
> >> Heck, I haven't even installed the non-free firmware to make wireless
> >> work in a couple of th
On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Celejar wrote:
On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 09:53:27 -0400
"James P. Wallen" wrote:
...
Heck, I haven't even installed the non-free firmware to make wireless
work in a couple of these notebooks.
Firmware runs on the external hardware, not the system, so system
stability
On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 09:53:27 -0400
"James P. Wallen" wrote:
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> Heck, I haven't even installed the non-free firmware to make wireless
> work in a couple of these notebooks.
Firmware runs on the external hardware, not the system, so system
stability shouldn't be an issue. I assume that here
On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
> That's one difference between us: I don't use Compiz.
That's not a difference. I don't use it, either. My use of Compiz was
just a part of exploration of the Gnome DE. I don't even use Gnome now.
> ... because I don't need glitzy special effect
On 04/24/2010 08:53 AM, James P. Wallen wrote:
On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 04/22/2010 08:49 AM, Stephen Powell wrote:
[snip]
I shall now avoid, when possible, computers with Nvidia graphics cards.
Except that Nvidia's drivers are still *much* better than ATI's drivers
On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 04/22/2010 08:49 AM, Stephen Powell wrote:
[snip]
I shall now avoid, when possible, computers with Nvidia graphics cards.
Except that Nvidia's drivers are still *much* better than ATI's drivers.
Insofar as my experience goes I'd have to q
> The VESA driver is not adequate
> for many users. If I recall correctly, the VESA driver only makes
> use of video graphics modes supported by the video BIOS. These video
> modes often cannot exploit the maximum video resolution available on
> many modern LCD displays.
This was the main reason
On 04/22/2010 08:49 AM, Stephen Powell wrote:
[snip]
I shall now avoid, when possible, computers with Nvidia graphics cards.
Except that Nvidia's drivers are still *much* better than ATI's drivers.
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On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:36:27 -0400 (EDT), Camaleón wrote:
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> Let me "copy/paste" from the official announcemnet¹:
>
> ***
> "(...) For this reason, NVIDIA is dropping support, on new GPUs, for the
> xf86-video-nv driver.
>
> Details:
>
> - NVIDIA will continue to support the existing functiona
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