Greetings All, You know with all of the problems I have seen with this and other hardware configuration problems both here and experienced personally, I begin to wonder if it is worthwhile to allow kernel upgrades at all. For that matter, after getting the bugs ironed out, I may not want upgrade anything. Later, Beej ----- Original Message ----- From: "Les Mikesell" <les@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 8:37 AM Subject: Re: nvidia problems again.... > On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 03:24, Brian Fahrlander wrote: > > > I understand the feeling. I had some trouble with Nvidia and the > > new kernels for a while. > > > > But isn't it odd that, with all the technical explanation above that > > they _don't_ want, that they'll accept "It's broken and nobody knows how > > to fix it without a million-dollar support contract from Microsoft" is > > an acceptable alternative? > > There are 2 differences: hardware companies try to supply > working drivers for Microsoft products, and Microsoft doesn't > change the driver API from OS release to release just to > make it difficult for them. Maybe when some big companies > start using Linux desktops one or both of these will change. > (I'm guessing, only one...) > > --- > Les Mikesell > les@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
