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. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman netllama@xxxxxxxxx LlamaLand http://netllama.linux-sxs.org
