[FusionComm] 2 Quick suggestion

[Sam Spilsbury]

How about ...

The user boots up the system, CF logo comes up and a hardware is detected in
front of them. When hardware is detected that requires a proprietary driver,
a question is asked to the user if they wish to continue using the system
even if the driver may not be compatible with the GPL.

Ubuntu boots just like this. I'm not sure about display drivers, but when I
boot my system, I get a little info box from restricted drivers manager
saying that 'Atheros Proprietary HAL Driver is being used (Because I have an
atheros card). So why not just a dialog box saying 'Hey, I'm using Driver
Software that some people might not like (Not-GPL) - Here is the licence, do
you want to continue to boot the system with Desktop Effects? If the user
says no, then restart X - unload the driver and display a warning saying
that desktop effects cannot be enabled.


.... Or use Ubuntu ;-)

On 7/14/07, Sven Mauhar <zekopeko at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> well thats why we should just make the X server restart not reboot the
> machine. the end user shouldn't care what where doing as long as it works.
>
> On 7/13/07, Alyssa Hung <deciare at isisview.org> wrote:
> >
> > Sven Mauhar wrote:
> > > how about a live cd with driver that are not installed by default but
> > > are on the CD?
> > > just have a big icon on the desktop or ask at start if the user agrees
> > > to install the drivers and restart X.
> > > would this be compatible with GPL or what ever license the affected
> > > programs are under?
> >
> > That's almost what Ubuntu (Feitsty)'s live CD does, but with an
> > important difference. Ubuntu's live CD doesn't ask you to restart X, it
> > asks you to reboot. ;) The drivers you just installed are forgotten from
> > memory along with your reboot, of course.
> >
> > It's possible to restart X instead of rebooting to make it work, but I
> > agree that it wouldn't be obvious to the average Windows user (for whom
> > "restarting the windowing system" and "rebooting" mean the same thing).
> >
> >
> > ~Alyssa
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