How to use NVIDIA Official driver on Fedora
Frederic Soulier
frederic at wallaby.uklinux.net
Wed May 26 12:38:00 UTC 2004
On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 13:22, Sean Estabrooks wrote:
> On Wed, 26 May 2004 07:16:41 -0500 (CDT)
> "Benjamin J. Weiss" <benjamin at Weiss.name> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 26 May 2004, Paul wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > > While you wait for the kernel to build, send an email to
> > > > linux-bugs at nvidia.com and put some more pressure on them to release
> > > > updated drivers so you don't have to go through this ordeal in the
> > > > future ;)
> > >
> > > And ask them to make the drivers open source (GPL) rather than the nasty
> > > way they have them currently.
> > >
> > They can't. They're constrained by the licenses of third-party modules
> > that they include (in hardware or software, I don't know). If they tried
> > to open-source their drivers, they'd be breakng the law.
> >
> > Ben
>
> Who cares what the reasons are? Maybe they'll try a little harder in the
> future to not let themselves get so tied up by third parties. Lets just find
> someone who can and stop making excuses for these companies. Check
> out what Warren Togami from RedHat recently recommended:
Well I guess it makes a lot of business sense to cross-license, buy a
license for something you don't have, etc... instead of developing
everything from scratch.
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-May/msg05039.html
>
> Where he says:
>
> ------
> I highly recommend "Built by ATI" genuine Radeon 9200 specifically,
> because it is fairly cheap, and supported by the Open Source drivers
> of xorg-x11 in FC2. It worked fairly well for me in FC1 after updates too.
>
> Do some research about exactly which Radeon 9200 to buy though,
> because I read something about the "SE" version not working.
> --------
Ok so it's recommended because:
a) It's cheap
b) It's supported by Open Source drivers
I agree b) is important.
But what about a card recommended because:
a) it's top of the range
b) loads of features fully supported
c) 3D drivers on par or better than windows counterparts
--
Frederic Soulier <frederic at wallaby.uklinux.net>
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