[CS-FSLUG] Mandrake 2005LE and NVidia drivers

[Nathan T.]

On 8/4/05, Fred A. Miller <fmiller at lightlink.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 04 August 2005 1:24 am, Nathan T. wrote:
> > Is it possible that Mandrake is blocking the use of nvidia drivers
> > that aren't released by them, even when the nvidia packages are
> > compiled by hand? It is plausible since one of the selling points of a
> > boxed set is the inclusion of proprietary drivers like the nvidia and
> > ati ones as RPMs.
> 
> Ah.......SUSE nor anyone else includes the drivers, as far as I know. SUSE
> includes a GNU driver but it doesn't support 3D. You have to go out on the
> Net. as an update and get the driver from nVidia, which Yast will do.
> 
> Fred

http://store.mandriva.com/product_info.php?products_id=160&osCsid=157dc4a67723bfeb9a16117e2b53d823
"It includes commercial software (Flash/Java plugins, JDK, etc.) and
non-free drivers (Nvidia and ATI video cards) with an auto
installation system."

I also noticed this while I was there:
"The Desktop/LX 1.4 Gold Edition bundle is the very last version of
Desktop/LX that will ever be sold!"
http://store.mandriva.com/product_info.php?products_id=224&osCsid=ff19f4fbd358b34a1a6b93c220e135ce

That's sad, I remember talking to the Lycoris people all the time on
IRC, and now that it's been absorbed by Mandriva I'm concerned that a
good distribution may have been lost for nothing (Mandriva doesn't
have a good track record with me).