From: Heimo Claasen <hammer@revobild.net>
To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: TFT display on Debian GNU/Linux
Date: 02 Sep 2003 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200309020853.h828r6j4017481@ev6.be.wanadoo.com> (raw)
Geoff -
> Is there a simple reason why the "commercial distros" are able to do
> this ? Maybe they are using non-GPL software that we would not wish to
> see in Debian.
Me newbie cannot see the difference - it seems not a problem of proprietary
drivers (many of the video cards' are that in any case, as the chips
are firmware) - as much I can see is that both Debian and Mandrake, for
instance, use the same "nv" driver for the Nvidia TNT2 chip (one of the
bones of contention). Then why couldn't we arrive at having the full high
resolution scale working with the monitor(s) ? There, the spec.s and
interfaces are broadly open, so that's no so much of an issue. </sigh>
// Heimo Claasen // <hammer at revobild dot net> // Brussels 2003-09-01
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-02 0:00 Heimo Claasen [this message]
2003-09-02 8:54 ` TFT display on Debian GNU/Linux pa3gcu
2003-09-02 14:39 ` Ray Olszewski
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2003-09-06 0:00 Heimo Claasen
2003-08-31 0:00 Heimo Claasen
2003-08-31 7:37 ` geoff bagley
2003-08-31 15:25 ` Ray Olszewski
2003-08-31 17:08 ` geoff bagley
2003-08-30 15:20 geoff bagley
2003-08-30 15:32 ` Ray Olszewski
2003-08-30 17:15 ` geoff bagley
2003-08-30 17:32 ` Ray Olszewski
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