Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Catalyst and modular Xorg

[Luca Casagrande <luca.casagrande@gmail.com>]

Alle 16:10, martedì 08 agosto 2006, Chris Gianelloni ha scritto:
> On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 00:55 +0200, Luca Casagrande wrote:
> > Hi to all!
> > Thanks your great help i have successfully created a stage3 and now i am
> > going to build livecd-stage1...Does i need to add all use flag for nvidia
> > and ati to use proprietary driver, or it's enough to add
> > xorg,nvidia-kernel,nvidia-glx and ati-drivers to package list without any
> > related use flag?
>
> The binary drivers require a configured kernel, so they need to be built
> in livecd-stage2.
>
> Also, if you plan on giving this CD to *anyone* at all, you cannot use
> the binary drivers.  It is against the law to distribute the binary
> drivers in a compiled form, since they violate the GPL and thereby
> copyright on the Linux kernel.

Thanks for your answer Chris!
I have read this about the problem kororaa live distro...Then there's no way 
of building a livecd that uses nvidia and ATI driver? Then i don't understand 
how other live distro do...

Thanks
Luca
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