On Thursday 06 March 2003 07:42 am, thomas wrote: >> - - issues with the Nvidia cards with XFree and Nvidia drivers - contrary >> to the reports of others, I had problems with the proprietary drivers, >> started to happen only after upgrade to Cooker, wasn't broken with the >> same drivers in 9.0.
> Well Mandrake cant do anything about Nvidia proprietary drivers, > that's all up to nVidia... Not 100% true. Can't do anything about the drivers directly, can work around some things. NVidia chips are very popular, Mandrake needs to work well with them. Can petition NVidia to release more of their drivers as FOSS. Would get more response (would maybe get _a_ response) if it came from Mandrake proper. Too late for 9.1, but nevertheless a step ahead. Cheers; Leon
