On Thu, 2005-20-01 at 21:11 -0500, Steven Pasternak wrote: > 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. It is not so much nVidia's stupid licence ans it is the policy of RH from what I recall.
