As I see it, the best way would be for a third-party project like Fedora to
package the binary drivers, but with redhat-config-xfree86 being able to
modify the XF86Config file. That way, you'd just
1) apt-get install nvidia-glx
2) redhat-config-xfree86
3) Check the "Enable 3d acceleration" box.
4) Restart X.
Unbelievably simple.
This feature would make RHL look really good in a
Distro Review on
osnews.com :-)
/Peter
On Friday 25 July 2003 17.31, Jesse Keating wrote:
On Friday 25 July 2003 08:09, David St.Clair wrote:
> So, what's keeping RedHat from putting the drivers in the distribution?
> If it's a GPL
> thing, would it be easy to just download it during installation or at
> least give the option to the user?
It's a closed source thing. Red Hat doesn't distribute any closed source
software anymore (that I know of). It's impossible to support, and it
taints your kernel.