[Mageia-discuss] Nice review!

Sat Jun 11 17:11:03 CEST 2011

I have an nvidia card. A geforce 210 which is reasonably recent. When I
+installed mageia rc before release, the config part of the installer, when I
+configured the video, asked me if I wanted to install the nvidia driver from
+online. It installed quick and easy and the driver works great. So im kinda
+confused by this conversation. Did anyone bother to do the video
+configuration from the installer or is this about the live installer? Does
+it lack this feature?
+On Jun 11, 2011 10:16 AM, "Daniel Kreuter" <daniel.kreuter85 at googlemail.com>
+wrote:
+> On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Gary Montalbine <gmontalbine at cox.net
+>wrote:
+>
+>>
+>> If Mageia is to grow it needs to attract the normal user. The one's
+>> switching from MS. Many will not know what their video card is or may not
+>> even have the technical knowledge to figure out their hardware. They just
+>> want it to work. In ML I was asked if I wanted to load a propriety
+driver. I
+>> don't recall that happening here. I had to go find it. On bootup there
+was a
+>> lot of garbage about radeon and open spaces. I am using the radeon HD
+4200
+>> card. I have been an ML user since 2002 and have been able to work around
+>> problems with forum/mail list support. I have installed it for first time
+>> users with no problem. They were happy.
+>>
+>
+> In some ways MS is more annnoying than Linux can ever be. For example when
+i
+> install any version of Windows on my Desktop Computer (except win7) i have
+> no network drivers installed. Ok for this computer i have a disc where the
+> driver is on it. I own an old one without driver disc's and find out how
+the
+> network card is called even you have no working network, this task can be
+> annoying on windows. On linux it is not soo difficult (a little research
+on
+> the internet on another machine works, every program needed to figure out
+> the network card is included normally, on windows you have to install
+> special software only needed for one single task)
+>
+>
+>
+>
+>> Gary
+>>
+>
+>
+>
+> --
+> Mit freundlichen Grüßen
+>
+> Greetings
+>
+> Daniel Kreuter
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