Please Add Nvidia install info to FAQ [WAS Re: FC1 & NVIDIAaccelerated drivers.]

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Fr, den 05.12.2003 schrieb Benjamin J. Weiss um 15:53:
> > > Yes, an official FAQ page on fedora.redhat.com would be a nice thing I
> > > feel. Maybe just because users on this list don't care for the list
> > > archive to search for answers but feel free to ask questions and report
> > > problems which comes up at least twice a week. ;)
> > >
> > > Alexander
> >
> > If someone doesn't bother to even look at the archives and see a problem
> > that comes up twice a week, what makes you think they will read a FAQ?
> 
> It would be nice for somebody like me.  I have not installed Fedora, because
> of all of the problems I am seeing on this list.  Someday I will bite the
> bullet and install Fedora, and it would be *very* nice if I could go to one
> place (an official FAQ) and be able to easily see all of the hoops that I am
> going to have to jump through in order to make Fedora work.  My machine has
> an NVIDIA card, so I'll have to mess with that.  I will want yum/apt to
> work, and my God but there are a lot of posts about how that damn thing
> doesn't work but 2 days in a row, and not at all after a clean install
> without manually editing some conf file and adding/changing repositories or
> something.  Etcetera.

It is good that you read this mailinglist to gather information. But I
feel you are wrongly shocked about "the problems" which occur to some
people posting here. Mostly they just run a binary or installation and
do not read the instructions and comments. That's a pitty. It's a
behaviour usual in the Windows world: just clicking on any .exe file and
watching what happens.
Additional you don't need the NVidia.com driver to get XFree86 running
with an NVidia graphics card.

> 
> > For that matter, I don't think it is a Fedora issue, it is a NVidia issue,
> > so it belongs in their FAQ.  NVidia's closed source drivers don't come
> > with Fedora, so why should Fedora have to support them?
> 
> I don't think that it's so much an issue os Fedora having to support them,
> as it is a sharing of knowledge by other Fedora users who have figured out
> how to make the most popular video chipset in the world work with the OS.
> 
> Ben

Alexander


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