Matthew Flaschen wrote:
So far the nVidia video card on my motherboard has been the one
biggest head acke in this computer. It is wonderful with Windows I
hear but it sucks on Linux. Had I known....
Are you running the driver that nVidia gives away and fedora makes you
go out of your way to install and use?
I think you mean nVidia makes you go out of the way.
No I don't mean that. I don't have to make any extra effort for nVidia
drivers on Windows or Macs. nVidia themselves are doing more work for
the Linux version since they can't count on a stable interface. Fedora
could redistribute the driver as provided by nVidia but chooses not to.
People can get
FOSS Intel drivers with full rights directly from Fedora, so I don't
think Fedora is the issue here.
Well we disagree, then. I have no interest in having source or rights
to do anything but use the devices. I just want drivers that work and
that work should only have to be done once.
Apparently, ATI agrees.
They are probably just tired of trying to keep up with the kernel
breaking the interface in every update. It will be interesting to see
how many people _really_ are able to do better than the vendor engineers
at writing drivers, though.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
