Re: Fedora Core 6 HUGE problem

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 15:33 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> 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.
I have not dealt with this for a while. But aren't nvidia drivers
available from Nvidia?

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Aaron Konstam tel: (210) 656-0355 akonstam sbcglobal net