Newer ATI Radeon, ATI FireGL, and Nvidia GeForce/Quadro hardware support

[Mike A. Harris]

On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, James Drabb wrote:

>> This document concerns the current state of the XFree86 video 
>> driver support for ATI Radeon, FireGL, and Nvidia GeForce and 
>> Quadro video hardware which is present in Red Hat rawhide, and 
>> the current Fedora Core OS test release.  I'm posting this in 
>> order to solicit feedback, and also to get more people involved 
>> in reporting bugs and also notifying Red Hat and myself of any 
>> missing hardware support, etc. for these 2 video drivers.
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>Are there any plans to distribute the binary modules with Fedora Core?
>This way, when ever a new kernel is put out, the needed binaries for
>NVidia and ATI would be included.  Or is there a Free only code for
>Fedora, similar to Debian?

Fedora is completely comprised of OSS software, and the project's 
mandated goals state that clearly.


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Mike A. Harris     ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat