Re: [Gnu-darwin-distribution](no subject)

[<jw...@gn...>]

There are certain drivers that Apple is not able to distribute with=20
Darwin. Either these are closed source drivers from third parties, or=20
are drivers which contain licensed code that can not be freely=20
distributed.  Regarless of the reason, some of these drivers are freely=20=

available in binary form.  They under the "Third-party Drivers" package=20=

(see http://www.opensource.apple.com/projects/darwin/6.0/release.html=20
for details).  Unfortunately still not all drivers are available as 3rd=20=

party drivers and therefore the only way to obtain them is illegally=20
off a OS X box.

Secondly the iMac which you have didn't exist when Darwin 1.4.1 was=20
released so drivers for it could not exist at that time. Since the iMac=20=

came out drivers were released, but Darwin 1.4.1 was not updated until=20=

the Darwin 6.0.2 release came out a few months ago (which GNU-Darwin=20
hasn't updated to yet).

As for your question: "how can Darwin be a real indipendent OS if the=20
basic hardware is not supported?"  The basic hardware is supported.  An=20=

advanced video card driver and ppp are not basic hardware.  Those are=20
additional items which make using the basic hardware better.  There are=20=

plenty of real independent OSes that don't contain certain advanced=20
hardware drivers.

-jwa

On Luned=EC, dic 9, 2002, at 03:11 US/Pacific, Kruznak wrote:

> Greetings to all,
> I'm Kruznak, a new member of this mailing list. I've recently=20
> installed GNU-Darwin ppc 2.3 beta on my iMac G4 700 (iLamp) and I've=20=

> stated that several devices, such as the video card and the internal=20=

> modem, are not recognized after the installation and so, for example,=20=

> the first time I tried to launch the X server the IOKit made the=20
> system freeze. To solve this problem I had to copy the kernel=20
> extensions of the NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX into the Extensions folder from=20=

> the pre-existent MacOSX installation, and I had to repeat the same=20
> procedure for modem and PPP daemon too. Then I ask myself: "Why those=20=

> kernel extensions were not included in the install cd? Are maybe not=20=

> part of the GNU-Darwin project? And if so, how can Darwin be a real=20
> indipendent OS if the basic hardware is not supported?". The same=20
> questions I want to forward to you.
>
> Best regards
> Kruznak
>
>
>
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