Re: 2.5.45 / boottime oops (pnp bios I think)

From: Brian Gerst (bgerst@didntduck.org)
Date: Thu Nov 07 2002 - 10:54:54 EST


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.

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				Brian Gerst

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