On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 09:39 -0400, David wrote: > I would think that qualifies as a driver problem. :-) I agree. > But not a Windows driver problem. Why not? It is a HP problem. Their > hardware and their driver(s). Windows had nothing to do with any of > this. Microsoft gave plenty of time for hardware makers to produce new > drivers for Vista. The hardware makers did not do it for older > hardware. > Why? Because they wanted you to buy new hardware. Microsoft, Vista, > took > the heat for them not providing the drivers. Which is what I said. Note that you didn't ask about "problems caused by MS" but about "Windows Driver Hell". > Which is the whole point here. Fedora and Nvidia for example. The > Nvidia > driver(s) is/are supplied by Nvidia. Fedora does not, nor can they, > provide these. Fedora provides a FOSS driver for this purpose. This > 'Nvidia thing' is not Fedora's problem. Nor is it RPMfusion's problem. > RPMfusion very nicely provides a module. But they don't have to do > that. To be clear: I'm not arguing with this position, which is perfectly logical and which I agree with. I was merely responding to your request for concrete examples of driver problems in Windows. poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
