[Fwd: Re: [ILUG] Help with nVidia drivers install FC2]

Paul Jakma paul at clubi.ie
Tue Aug 24 15:31:47 IST 2004


On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Bryan O'Donoghue wrote:

> I concede the principal of using an open source (patched, 
> maintained?) driver if you'll use LinuxBIOS or give a good logical 
> reason why I should break a system which works for me, relies on a 
> propiatery (fairly critical) chunk of code... but *not* flash the 
> mobo bios on every system I, you or (n) comes to, on the same 
> principals.

That's interesting, but the BIOS is nothing more than a (pretty bad) 
bootloader, for one of my machines it doesnt even manage that 
properly.

regards,
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