On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 06:44:55PM -0000, Martin J Hooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But when I actually try and install it all it pops up a message > saying that the licence of the module will taint the kernel aborting > installation. It's the driver installation, and not module-init-tools installation right?
> Am I better off installing a Debian packaged later 2.4 kernel source > and compiling that or what? What do you want? If you do not need 2.6.0 functionality, then stay at 2.4.23 or greater if any. 2.6.0 is working for most users, but it has serious problems at others. Also, it's not yet good in security. My advice is that one should switch to 2.6 at 2.6.4, but better at 2.6.10 or so. > I'm presuming theres something in the source code of the ATI kernel > driver that can be changed to make it work... IMHO the ATI driver says that it will taint the kernel. That's correct, you can't do anything with that. ATI provides a binary device driver, so all this means that kernel developers will refuse to help you debugging problems in the kernel as it contains non-free and non-checkable parts. > I'm thinking of completely re-installing and starting again > though.... I do not think it will be better. Cheers, GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
