On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 16:28 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Beartooth writes:
>
> > Consequence : those of us with F9 but no GUI are, apparently, up
> > the creek. We can't get X to work, and we can't downgrade back to F8.
>
> You can never downgrade to an earlier release. That has never been the case,
> and will never be the case, at least not until rpm is replaced by something
> else.
>
> You are at Nvidia's mercy, to release a driver that's compatible with F9.
> Perhaps it's now clear why non-free binary blobs are a bad idea.
If the nv driver also doesn't work (I didn't see the beginning of this
thread, but Beartooth does say above "F9 but no GUI"), then he's also at
the mercy of the open-source kernel driver writers. They have not
necessarily been any faster than nVidia at fixing broken drivers or
supporting new cards.
Beartooth: Have you tried the vesa driver? It worked with my nVidia
laptop card when nothing else would (when F8 was released), except that
it wouldn't turn off the backlight. I haven't seen any progress on that
bug (#351661) since I filed it last October.
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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