On Thursday 20 January 2005 18:47, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Guy Fraser writes: > > On Tue, 2005-18-01 at 21:34 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > >> Otherwise, the results will be what you have now. Although on this > >> occasion you might be lucky enough to find someone to give you a > >> workaround, sooner or later you'll be boned. Unless, of course, you use > >> precisely the kernel version and build that received the official stamp > >> of approval from NVidia. > > > > Male bovine feces! > > > > nVidia does a good job of providing multidisplay and 3D drivers > > that work. > > Then I must've imagined all the reports to LKML of various kernel errors > caused by NVidia's closed code. > > > I have had trouble in the past, but within a short period of time > > the binary drivers were fixed, and all was well again. > > I really don't like having trouble in this area. Not even for a short > period of time. I'd like to be able to install Fedora, and have everything > working out of the box. I don't want to mess around with downloading > drivers and trying to shoehorn them in, somehow. So would everyone else. NVIDIA's STUPID license makes you download the driver because you can't ship it with a distro or something like that. Xandros OS somehow got around that, but that is the only one that I know of that does.
