Re: Fedora Core 6 HUGE problem



On Monday 28 May 2007 21:33:22 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.

The linux compatibility list says that the nv driver works for the card in
question. Tested on Debian, IIRC.

Anne

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