24 Feb
2012
24 Feb
'12
7:01 p.m.
On Fri, 2012-02-24 at 18:50 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Fri, 2012-02-24 at 06:03 +0100, hermann wrote:
PS: Not full GPL'ed, but not offending the GPL. Debian based distros
force me to offend the GPL or to get a nv driver working. Why did they
drop the nv driver as long as there only is an experimental FLOSS driver
to replace the nv?
Am Freitag, den 24.02.2012, 02:45 +0100 schrieb
Ralf Mardorf:
:D "GPL'ed" = headspace for ambivalent interpretations :p.
Serious, nouveau is marked as experimental, hence it isn't the time to
drop the FLOSS nv driver.
FWIW, I don't offend the GPL until now:
[spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ cat /etc/rc.d/69switch_xorg.conf
#! /bin/sh
# /etc/rcS.d/Switch_xorg_conf
rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf
case $(uname -r) in
*rt*)
cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.nv /etc/X11/xorg.conf
;;
*)
cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.nvidia /etc/X11/xorg.conf
;;
esac
I dropped my Debian install, but I guess my Ubuntu Studio Oneiric and
the planned openDAW (IOW a new Debian) install might offend the GPL
during this weekend. The cause is nouveau "so I won't remove the
cause.../ [chuckles] neither the symptom" - based loosely on Frank N.
Furter
- Ralf
Don't use a borked distro! If your distro don't provide the nv driver,
but replace it with an experimental driver, that knowingly isn't
working
for half of the NVIDIA graphics on the market, such as the nouveau
driver, than your distro is borked!
No, then your distro is full GPL'ed. ;-)