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----- Original Message ----- |
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From: Jeremy Winick |
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To: gentoo-dev@g.o |
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Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2002 9:12 AM |
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Subject: [gentoo-dev] gentoo social contract |
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I just found out about your project from an O'Reilly web article. |
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Sounds very interesting. However, when I went to your web site and |
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looked at the pages, I saw Nvidia logo. Now how can one as my experience |
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serves, use Nvidia graphics boards with Open GL without Nvidia proprietary |
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code. I have been using RH 7.3 on a Dell with Nvidia and I must "taint" the |
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kernel to include Nvidia's proprietary 3-D kernel modules. Do you have |
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another way, such as open source drivers that work well. You must if |
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you use Nvidia and support games (I am not really a gamer so I guess I |
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could get away without using Nvidia's code). |
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Jeremy Winick |
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jeremy.winick@×××××××.net |
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10 Paul Revere Rd |
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Acton, MA 01720 |
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Grrr .... pleasedon't post html. |
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Gento makes available an ebuild that will download and install the |
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proprietary NVidia drivers for you. |
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Gentoo does *NOT* depend on the NVidia drivers. |
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That is, you can safely install a Gentoo based system and not use the NVidia |
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drivers, unless you wish to take advantage of the features that the NVidia |
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drivers provide. |
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Troy |
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Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually |
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repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said. |
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http://linux.tkdack.com |
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