-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Kim Lux wrote: > 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 ! > Kim, I sympathize with your problems; but, this is not a KERNEL issue in the long run BUT a video manufacturer's decision to keep certain things a secret in the highly competitive industry of video cards. As of today, ATI and NVIDIA are the only ones that seem to want to keep everything a secret from the open source development community. If you want to complain to anyone, complaining here will only frustrate the situation and probably make the video card manufacturers laugh. They provide drivers only as a service and with them not being open sourced, no one can do anything other than wait for NVIDIA or ATI to catch up to the newest kernel version/build. The only other option, is to wait for them to follow with a build for the newer kernels before updating your own. Realizing that you may need to do some fancy work to get your video card working again with the new kernel. The MOUSE is a different story. The MOUSE is well documented and the protocol clearly defined. And might add has not changed much in the 20 or so years of existence. The video card industry; however, has not done such a good job and only in the last 4-5 years have headed more toward proprietary hardware/software to produce the quick responses. Which leads to trade secretes... the keyboard and mouse has not gone in that direction and lets hope they NEVER do. - -James -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFU5x1kNLDmnu1kSkRAk8qAJoCnM17X8Jy44u4UTvRKYXvoTtGTwCeNo6k OApZwVUgcK58pRgCT8aSSqc= =j8Ut -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Scanned by ClamAV - http://www.clamav.net
