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Re: Attention: Proprietary video driver users (ATI, Nvidia, etc.)
- From: Alan Cox <alan redhat com>
- To: Development discussions related to Fedora Core <fedora-devel-list redhat com>
- Cc: For testers of Fedora Core development releases <fedora-test-list redhat com>
- Subject: Re: Attention: Proprietary video driver users (ATI, Nvidia, etc.)
- Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 09:39:34 -0500
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 02:34:57PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> Fedora installation out of the box will run binary-only code supplied by
> your board manufacturer, without really giving you much clue that it's
> doing so.
Correct. Each intel board has board specific analogue circuitry and interfaces
which are driven via a BIOS interface. X would need a driver for each
motherboard (and potentially each board rev) to do anything else
Alan
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