Re: [Fedora] Re: Nvidia sucks, sucks, sucks !

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On 11/9/06, Kim Lux <lux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 13:06 -0700, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
> Ingemar Nilsson wrote:
> > So you'd rather run in text mode trying to build the proprietary driver,
> > than unplug your second monitor and use the nv driver, at least until you
> > can find out how to build the nvidia driver?
> >
>     See, I can totally understand this part of his (Kim) argument.  It's
> the 10 year old mentality.  I deal with it on a daily basis across the
> entire school district.  As someone else pointed out, he has yet to grow
> out of it.

I apologize for not realizing that the there was a non proprietary
driver and that it could be co installed with the proprietary driver and
that it would run in the absence of the proprietary driver.

Maybe the reason I didn't realize there was a non proprietary driver is
because:

a) it doesn't run dual monitors, which I need, so it wasn't part of the
solution when I first set up my laptop, 2 years ago.

b) I don't spend my time researching driver options for my Linux box

c) I shouldn't need a second driver in the first place, especially one
that needs to be specially installed from an rpm !  Whatever happened to
bundling drivers with the kernel !

Do you know that I have no idea what mouse driver my laptop runs ?
None.  I don't know the version, I don't know what its called, nothing.
I could look, but I don't have to !  When I install a new kernel, my
mouse doesn't quit working !

That's because the kernel isn't what provides mouse support in X.  Its
amazing that you can talk at all with your foot so far down your
throat all the time.

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