Re: TFT display on Debian GNU/Linux

Heimo Claasen
2003-09-02T00:00:00Z

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>

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