Don't shoot the messenger, but see below: On 10/28/07, Chris Gehlker wrote: > On Oct 28, 2007, at 10:56 AM, Dazed_75 wrote: > > > Thats why I don't quite understand the "lack of work to give them" > > statement. OTOH, existing driver support is hugely better than it was > > a few years ago so I can easily see that as part of the reason. Sure > > is good to see the project thriving though. > > The article is very confusing. ATI and Nvidia are not "two video > cards". I guess they are 'most' video cards. And does 'the device is So his grammar is not correct. Blogs (where that came from originally) are full of mis-statements due to bad grammar. It seems to be a growing trend unfortunately. OTOH, I think you can read what he says in the way that you say is correct. Especially in a case like nvidia where they tend to make drivers that support all there products (can we all spell "bloat"?). In any case, that seems like a nit to me. > supported' mean that the default Ubuntu install will auto-detect it > and do the right thing or does it mean that there is source code out > there somewhere for those who know how to compile and install it? it > strikes me that there might be a long way between the driver project > and and the common distros. Agreed. On the other hand, if you go back to their foundations, the project is aimed at enusring that drivers for hardware EXIST for Linux, not that the drivers are FOSS or incorporated into distros. Sure, that may be an end goal even in that project, but it is not the priority 1 goal. -- Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be. - William Hazlitt --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss