[nzlug] Xine on Fedora 8: does it work for anyone?

[Nevyn]

On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Patrick Connolly
<tuxkid at slingshot.co.nz> wrote:

...
>  Thanks for that tip: it was very informative.  It tells me I should
>  try xine-ui, but there doesn't seem to be an rpm at the Livna
>  repository.  I notice on my Mepis machine, there is a package of that
>  name.  What does one do for an rpm equivalent?
>
>  It also suggested I get an ATI accelerated driver here:
>  http://www.linuxvideo.org/gatos/
>  But that was diverted to a cheap viagra site.  How does one stop that
>  happening?
...

Hi Patrick,

You can drivers here:
http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html

The gist of it is that the drivers, although free, aren't Free. Thus,
they can't be included in the base installation. I think a distro
tried to include Nvidia drivers a couple of years in their base
distribution and GNU got promptly snippy and put a stop to it.

The way around it seems to be to make the user fully aware of the
nature of the drivers. That they aren't considered Free. GNU seems
quite happy with this approach. I can't speak for Fedora though. I
have no idea how they normally do it.

Regards,
Nevyn.