Mageia and propietary, closed sourced drivers

[astroboy]

In Mandriva the dual and DVD install programs did not load any propietary drivers, you had to configure them after finishing the install process. But those drivers were loaded automatically and included for the install process in the Live One CD, so if I used install program from live CD, I already had propietary drivers in use on my system without any tinkering on my part.

Mageia will behave like this? or are there going to be changes about it?

Best Regards

[jkerr82508]

Mageia will behave like this?

Yes. The DVD and dual-arch CD will provide only Free software. The live CD's will include proprietary device drivers.

Jim

[ahmad]

The blocker issue for having proprietary drivers on the Live CD's is having pre-built dkms binary kernel modules packages, this isn't working yet... I don't know for sure when this will be made to work.

[mgsAbfnc]

But they are easily installable, after the install is complete... right?

[wobo]

Right!

[ahmad]

Yeah; also you can, during the live session, make sure you have an active internet connection and add the online sources and reconfigure your hardware, the changes should be carried over to the installed system; at least I think it should work, not 100% sure, though; from my POV, I'd install the system _first_ then customise/install whatever I want, once I am sure it boots at least :)

[rickst29]

Ahmed, do you hope to create a User-runnable NVidia-Build script for Mageia (as you did for MDV last fall)?

If so, I would love to try and use it on my system. That would be after I have installed both nouveau and any "official" packages which your create for the Distro.

[ahmad]

Ahmed, do you hope to create a User-runnable NVidia-Build script for Mageia (as you did for MDV last fall)?

Not my script at all, it's written by Anssi Hannula. :)

If so, I would love to try and use it on my system. That would be after I have installed both nouveau and any "official" packages which your create for the Distro.

The script is till at http://kenobi.mandriva.com/~anssi/nvidia-mdvbuild/

(However, FWIW, it's only useful when you want to package a nvidia driver not in the official repos).

[rickst29]

(slaps forehead....) I apologize, deeply, for my somewhat-insulting confusion. My purpose would be to "play with" Fresh Releases and Beta versions, as home-built RPMs. Easier to manage via MCC, without allowing Nividia's *.run to possibly mess up carefully-tuned configuraton files.

Thank you.

[ahmad]

(slaps forehead....) I apologize, deeply, for my somewhat-insulting confusion.

No problem (I created the sticky, IIRC, topic on the mdv forum about that script).

My purpose would be to "play with" Fresh Releases and Beta versions, as home-built RPMs. Easier to manage via MCC, without allowing Nividia's *.run to possibly mess up carefully-tuned configuraton files.

Thank you.

That's exactly why Anssi (genius) created that script :)