nvidia

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Mon Oct 29 16:54:05 UTC 2007


Scott van Looy wrote:

>>> Progress isn't a bad thing. Ranting at Fedora people because someone 
>>> else's hardware isn't easy to make work on their OS is a bit silly 
>>> though.
>>
>> But, but, but... What's the point of an OS if it doesn't make it easy 
>> to use hardware????
> 
> To operate the CPU(s) - hardware support is optional and often in 
> obscure places absent or wonky at best.

If your i/o devices don't work, whether your CPU works or not becomes a 
Heisnberg question.  And the answer won't really matter.

>>> Would you moan at redhat if you couldn't get Oracle to work on it, 
>>> yet Oracle claimed linux compatibility?
>>
>> Of course.  There's not much excuse for screwing up interfaces that an 
>> OS is supposed to provide.
> 
> And the fact that everyone at Redhat would tell you to talk to Oracle 
> for writing broken software wouldn't dissuade you?

I might peek at some strace output to see whether the system call 
arguments or results were at fault.

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    Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell at gmail.com




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