Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (471 mails)

[Ken Schneider - Factory <suse-list3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Luis Medinas pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 16:25 -0400, Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote:
> > Greg KH pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 03:08:40PM +0200, Susanne Oberhauser wrote:
> > > > Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@xxxxxxx> writes:
> > > >
> > > > > Well, get rid of proprietary drivers is what the open source community
> > > > > wants ...
> > > > Sigh.
> > > >
> > > > Who doesn't?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > After a few years of trying ot enforce this, how about winning by
> > > > numbers?  for a change, first we gain the market share that we deserve.
> > > > _then_ we can enforce things.
> > > So ignore legal problems before we become big enough?
> > >
> > > Hah, no such chance, sorry.
> > >
> > > Remember, it's not just a legal issue:
> > >     http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Kernel_Driver_Statement
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > >
> > > greg k-h
> > Then provide a working alternative!
> The alternative is using OSS drivers or just use graphic card that does
> have OSS drivers. In case of ATI, novell is working on a OSS driver. If
> you have an nvidia you can use neauveau, intel provides OSS drivers too.
> There are plenty of options!
>
> Luis

That's not an alternative for people with laptops STUCK with LOUSY ATI cards.

I'm not a fan of closed source either but when there is no alternative
there is no choice. Personally I have (and only will use) NVidia cards and
haven't heard of the neauveau driver. What repo is it available from?

zypper wp neauveau
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
No providers of 'neauveau' found.
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