Re: [SLE] Video Cards w/ DVI

From: Randall R Schulz (rschulz_at_sonic.net)
Date: 04/30/05

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Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 12:16:29 -0700

    Anders,

    On Saturday 30 April 2005 11:53, Anders Johansson wrote:
    > On Saturday 30 April 2005 19:36, Randall R Schulz wrote:
    > > I have gotten the impression that nVidia has the best driver
    > > support, though one must manually install the nVidia-supplied
    > > driver since they don't allow Linux vendors to include this driver
    > > in their
    > > distributions.
    >
    > This is incorrect, and has been discussed on this list before

    So why the oft-repeated instruction to go through an extra
    nVidia-specific driver installation step?

    Randall Schulz 

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