Fedora Core 6 HUGE problem

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Mon May 28 19:45:04 UTC 2007


Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mon, 28 May 2007 13:46:26 +0300
> "V at ly" <valy.tgv at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> hello! i've one day of my life downloading your FC6 DVD image. i've burnt it
>> and checked it for errors. it was ok so i "started" setup. you might wonder
>> why the "" around started... well the graphical setup just wouldn't start.
>> after the blue setup screen, at the part where it says "running
>> anaconda....." when it tries to detect my video card it only detects the
>> manufacturer which is nVidia but not the actual card which is a GeForce 6200
> 
> Nvidia support is fairly basic because they choose to keep all their bits
> secret.

*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...

   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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