On Monday 28 May 2007 21:33:22 Les Mikesell wrote: > Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > Les Mikesell wrote: > >> *AND* because the fedora distribution does nothing to assist their users > >> in installing the driver that Nvidia makes freely available. The > >> party-line argument that third party drivers cause support problems kind > >> of falls on its face when the included driver doesn't work at all... > > > > Nvidia supplies the driver, shouldn't they also supply the support > > for it? After all, Nvidia is getting profit for selling the > > hardware. They are also the people that know what is in the driver. > > Why should someone else be expected to provide support if Nvadia > > isn't willing to provide the source for their driver, or at least > > the information needed so someone else can create an open source driver? > > Per the original poster, it isn't Nvidia's driver that is broken, it is > the one included in the distribution. > > Supplying, or at least documenting the procedure to get the working > version isn't about 'supporting' Nvidia, it is about supporting fedora > users and providing something that works for them. It seems odd for > that to be such a controversial topic. > The linux compatibility list says that the nv driver works for the card in question. Tested on Debian, IIRC. Anne
