Fedora Core 6 HUGE problem

[Les Mikesell]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>> *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...
>>
> Nvidia supplies the driver, shouldn't they also supply the support
> for it? After all, Nvidia is getting profit for selling the
> hardware. They are also the people that know what is in the driver.
> Why should someone else be expected to provide support if Nvadia
> isn't willing to provide the source for their driver, or at least
> the information needed so someone else can create an open source driver?

Per the original poster, it isn't Nvidia's driver that is broken, it is 
the one included in the distribution.

Supplying, or at least documenting the procedure to get the working 
version isn't about 'supporting' Nvidia, it is about supporting fedora 
users and providing something that works for them.  It seems odd for 
that to be such a controversial topic.

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   Les Mikesell
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