[Fedora] Re: Nvidia sucks, sucks, sucks !

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 11/9/06, Kim Lux <lux at diesel-research.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 13:06 -0700, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
> > Ingemar Nilsson wrote:
> > > So you'd rather run in text mode trying to build the proprietary driver,
> > > than unplug your second monitor and use the nv driver, at least until you
> > > can find out how to build the nvidia driver?
> > >
> >     See, I can totally understand this part of his (Kim) argument.  It's
> > the 10 year old mentality.  I deal with it on a daily basis across the
> > entire school district.  As someone else pointed out, he has yet to grow
> > out of it.
>
> I apologize for not realizing that the there was a non proprietary
> driver and that it could be co installed with the proprietary driver and
> that it would run in the absence of the proprietary driver.
>
> Maybe the reason I didn't realize there was a non proprietary driver is
> because:
>
> a) it doesn't run dual monitors, which I need, so it wasn't part of the
> solution when I first set up my laptop, 2 years ago.
>
> b) I don't spend my time researching driver options for my Linux box
>
> c) I shouldn't need a second driver in the first place, especially one
> that needs to be specially installed from an rpm !  Whatever happened to
> bundling drivers with the kernel !
>
> Do you know that I have no idea what mouse driver my laptop runs ?
> None.  I don't know the version, I don't know what its called, nothing.
> I could look, but I don't have to !  When I install a new kernel, my
> mouse doesn't quit working !

That's because the kernel isn't what provides mouse support in X.  Its
amazing that you can talk at all with your foot so far down your
throat all the time.

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