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Ubuntu says no to non-free video drivers for Feisty (Linux.com)Ubuntu says no to non-free video drivers for Feisty (Linux.com)Posted Feb 14, 2007 15:26 UTC (Wed) by jdub (subscriber, #27)Parent article: Ubuntu says no to non-free video drivers for Feisty (Linux.com) As with every previous release of Ubuntu, proprietary drivers will be provided and installed by default, but they won't be used by default unless the free drivers do not function at all on the hardware present (a choice that has nothing to do with 3D acceleration). This decision just means that the plans to use proprietary display drivers by default have been nixed, but only for feisty. Everyone seems to make a big deal about the display drivers, but Ubuntu has shipped proprietary wifi drivers since warty, and they are used by default on vastly more hardware than the display drivers.
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Ubuntu says no to non-free video drivers for Feisty (Linux.com) Posted Feb 14, 2007 16:14 UTC (Wed) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link] Thanks for the info/reminder.
We of course treat the video drivers as a hot button issue because there is no good choice. The ATI drivers suck and are closed. The Nvidia drivers are of varying result and closed. The Intel drivers are open but of varying quality, and the performance is very much second rate.
It would be nice to have a first class citizen status video chipset.
Ubuntu says no to non-free video drivers for Feisty (Linux.com) Posted Feb 14, 2007 20:24 UTC (Wed) by lamikr (guest, #2289) [Link] Mandriva is releasing separately a "complete free" version from the their latest distros and then separately the ones which include the commercial drivers, etc...
Maybe ubuntu could do the same. Or maybe had in the installer
Mika
Ubuntu says no to non-free video drivers for Feisty (Linux.com) Posted Feb 14, 2007 22:39 UTC (Wed) by jdub (subscriber, #27) [Link] Interestingly enough, they are. :-)
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