Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 07 Nov 2002 10:54:54 -0500 | From | Brian Gerst <> | Subject | Re: 2.5.45 / boottime oops (pnp bios I think) |
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David Woodhouse wrote: > davej@codemonkey.org.uk said: > >> Relatively pointless given that there are more and more boxes out >>there that won't boot without ACPI these days. > > > There are also more and more boxes out there which won't run X without the > nvidia driver loaded. Does that mean we shouldn't bother to record that > information either? > > I'm not necessarily suggesting we should automatically ignore all reports > with the 'BIOS' taint flag set as we do the 'Proprietary' flag; just that > it should be reported.
You only need the binary driver for 3D support. XFree86 runs fine without it for 2D.
-- Brian Gerst
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