On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 15:36 +0000, Andy Green wrote: > Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > > > I'm like Lonni > > Do you work for nVidia too then? > > I think Kim has a point No, he does not have a point because 1) he is running a test kernel 2) he has test-updates enabled 3) You don't run bleeding edge stuff on a production machine 4) You do not expect Nvidia to release drivers for test kernels and 5) a fully functional already compiled version of the Nivida drivers is available on the Livna repository. It's HIS foul by using test stuff, not ours. If you want to help in the development of the distro, you use the test kernels and packages and furthermore you submit regular bug reports to bugzilla. That is the PURPOSE of the testing stuff; it's called "testing" for a reason. (testing you see is the process of getting shit to work in the first place.) IF on the other hand you want production level results, you use a production-stable fedora (Like FC5) with accompanying already-compiled drivers; period-dot end of line. > : being forced to use a fragile binary blob to > get the features built into the hardware is annoying. While recognizing > that nVidia folk did the work on the nv driver, it is also an arbitrary > decision of nVidia that keeps any more advanced functionality out of nv > and only in the binary blob. > > -Andy > To make the assertion that Nvidia's decision is arbitrary is flat out stupid. You are basically saying that they flipped a coin as to wether to go open source or not, that's bullshit. What they are doing is protecting their intellectual property by keeping portions of the driver closed, so there isn't a damn thing that's arbitrary about it. They have the *right to possess and protect their own intellectual property. LX -- °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°° "Anybody else wanna negotiate?" -- Maj. Korben Dallas Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°
