From: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, CaT <cat@zip.com.au>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.5.45 / boottime oops (pnp bios I think)
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 10:54:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DCA8CCE.5090503@didntduck.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 11262.1036680930@passion.cambridge.redhat.com
David Woodhouse wrote:
> davej@codemonkey.org.uk said:
>
>> Relatively pointless given that there are more and more boxes out
>>there that won't boot without ACPI these days.
>
>
> There are also more and more boxes out there which won't run X without the
> nvidia driver loaded. Does that mean we shouldn't bother to record that
> information either?
>
> I'm not necessarily suggesting we should automatically ignore all reports
> with the 'BIOS' taint flag set as we do the 'Proprietary' flag; just that
> it should be reported.
You only need the binary driver for 3D support. XFree86 runs fine
without it for 2D.
--
Brian Gerst
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-07 15:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-04 2:54 2.5.45 / boottime oops (pnp bios I think) CaT
2002-11-04 13:05 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-04 13:46 ` CaT
2002-11-04 14:21 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-07 14:33 ` David Woodhouse
2002-11-07 14:51 ` Dave Jones
2002-11-07 14:55 ` David Woodhouse
2002-11-07 15:46 ` Dave Jones
2002-11-07 15:50 ` David Woodhouse
2002-11-07 15:54 ` Brian Gerst [this message]
2002-11-04 16:15 ` Adam Belay
2002-11-04 23:54 ` CaT
2002-11-04 20:28 ` Adam Belay
2002-11-05 2:06 ` CaT
2002-11-04 21:24 ` Adam Belay
2002-11-05 2:29 ` CaT
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