Re: nvidia problems again....

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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...)
>
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>   Les Mikesell
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