Rui Miguel Seabra became daring and sent these 2.4K bytes, > On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 07:11 -0500, dalen wrote: > > Rui Miguel Seabra wrote: > > > On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 10:09 +0100, Chris Jones wrote: > > >>>Ask NVIDIA, they're the only one entity who can help you. > > > > > > No, they don't want to cooperate with the community of NVIDIA cards' > > > users. > > Nvidia does cooperate with nvidia card users by providing drivers for > > linux/windows/etc. The issue of binary -vs- gpl drivers is independent > > of the issue of cooperation. > > No it's not. Whith binary only drivers, they're your master. > They even IMPOSE macrovision on your computer. > > With Free Software drivers (note: not necessarily GPL) you wouldn't be > having the troubles there are right now (which are only happening > _once_again_ although for different technical reasons). FOSS Zealotry at its finest.. I might suggest you help out this poor underappreciated community by writing drivers for these cards so we might all be better off. > > I for one am glad that nvidia provides > > drivers so my kids can play Tux Racer:) I would rather them provide gpl > > drivers, but I respect their business decision. > > You respect a decision that doesn't respect you? > You do know that respect goes both ways, right? Respect has nothing to do with drivers or hardware for that matter. > > I emailed nvidia and asked when a new driver for fc2 would be available > > and received the answer below. > > > > "We are aware of the poor interaction between our driver > > and the 4kstack limitation in Fedora Core 2, and hope to release > > a new driver soon. I do not have an ETA at this point, though. > > ===>>> So... the poor interaction is due to the "limitation" present in > Fedora Core 2, how thankful must we be that they so graciously will > grant some charity... "soon". It is their charity, they are under no obligation to support linux. Arguably linux isn't even a desktop contender yet. I think you need to take a step back and reevaluate your position. The world doesn't owe you a living and nvidia doesn't owe the FOSS drivers. The problems with their drivers will be fixed soon, they are fairly responsive with problems like these. -- | +---------------------------------------------------------------------- | 0 1 0 -> Aaron M Matteson - 0xD144B7FF | 0 0 1 --> Windows and Linux C++/C# Developer | 1 1 1 ---> Researching the past to understand the future. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- | "Upon the one who is capable, vigorous and penetrating to the | Great Knowledge, the Two Gods Ea and Asarluhi will confer Vast | Understanding; these Gods will assure her/him a Guardian Angel, | whose name will be pronounced until the most distant times" | Assyrian Magician's Manual, Kar 44, r. 17-20. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- | aaron.matteson@xxxxxxx - An opinionated email address | http://aaron.techcommons.info/ - An opinionated blog | http://aaron.techcommons.info/wiki/ - Projects via wiki +----------------------------------------------------------------------
