Am Fr, den 05.12.2003 schrieb Benjamin J. Weiss um 15:53: > > > Yes, an official FAQ page on fedora.redhat.com would be a nice thing I > > > feel. Maybe just because users on this list don't care for the list > > > archive to search for answers but feel free to ask questions and report > > > problems which comes up at least twice a week. ;) > > > > > > Alexander > > > > If someone doesn't bother to even look at the archives and see a problem > > that comes up twice a week, what makes you think they will read a FAQ? > > It would be nice for somebody like me. I have not installed Fedora, because > of all of the problems I am seeing on this list. Someday I will bite the > bullet and install Fedora, and it would be *very* nice if I could go to one > place (an official FAQ) and be able to easily see all of the hoops that I am > going to have to jump through in order to make Fedora work. My machine has > an NVIDIA card, so I'll have to mess with that. I will want yum/apt to > work, and my God but there are a lot of posts about how that damn thing > doesn't work but 2 days in a row, and not at all after a clean install > without manually editing some conf file and adding/changing repositories or > something. Etcetera. It is good that you read this mailinglist to gather information. But I feel you are wrongly shocked about "the problems" which occur to some people posting here. Mostly they just run a binary or installation and do not read the instructions and comments. That's a pitty. It's a behaviour usual in the Windows world: just clicking on any .exe file and watching what happens. Additional you don't need the NVidia.com driver to get XFree86 running with an NVidia graphics card. > > > For that matter, I don't think it is a Fedora issue, it is a NVidia issue, > > so it belongs in their FAQ. NVidia's closed source drivers don't come > > with Fedora, so why should Fedora have to support them? > > I don't think that it's so much an issue os Fedora having to support them, > as it is a sharing of knowledge by other Fedora users who have figured out > how to make the most popular video chipset in the world work with the OS. > > Ben Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany PGP key valid: made 13.07.1999 PGP fingerprint: 2307 88FD 2D41 038E 7416 14CD E197 6E88 ED69 5653
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