On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 06:28 -0400, David wrote: > Windows "Driver hell"? > > The basic hardware drivers usually come with Windows. Fedora provides > basic, some quite advanced actually, hardware drivers for many pieces of > hardware. > > The 'better' Windows hardware drivers come with the hardware on CDs. The > Linux hardware drivers usually do not. Usually because there are none. > > Newer hardware drivers for Windows can be downloaded from the hardware > manufacturer. Again there seldom are Linux drivers provided by the > hardware manufacturers. > > This thread is about Nvidia drivers for Linux. > > If you buy an Nvidia video card and install it into a box that is > running a Windows OS and then boot it it works. You insert the CD that > came with the card and install the 'better' driver and reboot it works. > If you go to the Nvidia site and identify your card you can download the > latest drivers and install them. > > To do this for Fedora, Linux in general, requires *you* to actually do > some of the work by compiling the drivers from the code provided by > Nvidia. Why do *you* have to do the work. Becasue Fedora can not legally > do it for you. The how come RPMfusion can provide them? Ask them. > > Again - Windows "Driver hell"? I don't know of any. Examples please. > > Answer to one question: http://rpmfusion.org/FoundingPrinciples -- Thanks! Regards, Ankur https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha "FranciscoD" -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
