Attention: Proprietary video driver users (ATI, Nvidia, etc.)

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Thu Feb 23 14:39:34 UTC 2006


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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