Gentoo Archives: gentoo-catalyst

From: Luca Casagrande <luca.casagrande@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-catalyst@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Some thoughts about NVIDIA and GPL issue...
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 11:50:23
Message-Id: 200608111349.45610.luca.casagrande@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Some thoughts about NVIDIA and GPL issue... by "Andreas Rückert"
1 Alle 13:18, venerdì 11 agosto 2006, Andreas Rückert ha scritto:
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3 > > I am thinking about a solution:
4 > > What about an init script runned before x-setup, that ask if you wanna
5 > > use those driver?
6 > > If yes, it will emerge nvidia or ati driver; if not it will pass by...
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8 > You know, we have a similar problem with the Fritz USB WLan driver. Problem
9 > is, that it's required to establish a network connection. So we have no
10 > network without the driver, which makes it hard to emerge it later... :-)
11 > Maybe add it via a separate CD, or so...?
12 >
13 > Ciao,
14 > Andreas
15 >
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17 We can also add an option to the isolinux config..If this option is set, it
18 will display a warning message during the boot and then emerge proprietary
19 driver has needed...
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21 What do you think?
22 Luca
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