Self-Introduction:

David Nalley david.nalley at fedoraproject.org
Mon Dec 21 18:02:49 UTC 2009


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On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Joseph Allen  wrote:
> Oh well yes, I meant the Nouveau driver. The non free one I hate badly due
> to the fact that it broke my mom's computer when she did a kernel update
> (although she could have done a hard reboot during a kernel update... She
> doesn't seem to get that doing such things cause bad errors). She has to
> boot into a older kernel version just to start X! But yes, I would not give
> a guide to that wretched piece of software after what it did to her
> computer. I just know that there has to be something to help people who have
> Nvidia graphics cards. When I first installed Fedora 11 on my mom's computer
> the goal was to improve Flash (which skipped and sometimes wouldn't play on
> MS Vista). But after installation the refresh rate on screen was once every
> second. So I was just pointing out that unless they fixed that in Fedora 12
> there needs to be a guide to getting Nvidia to work. Otherwise some people
> will just not use Fedora due to the fact that a low refresh rate and VGA
> resolution won't make them very happy


Ahh cool. I apologize for my rant then.
Honestly at this point it should 'just work', and if it doesn't it
deserves filing a bug.
Nouveau became the default Nvidia driver in Fedora 11, and has made
tons of progress since then.
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