FC5, Another unhappy camper

Lyvim Xaphir knightmerc at yahoo.com
Fri May 19 02:52:13 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 02:22 -0400, Paul Michael Reilly wrote:
> Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> writes:
> 
>  > On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 16:11 -0400, Paul Michael Reilly wrote:
>  > > I have submitted enough bug reports to know that one that deals with
>  > > non-FOSS software (ATI and nVidia drivers) will not elicit any useful
>  > > response from Fedora.  This is the crux of my rant.  Fedora simply has
>  > > a policy that for non FOSS software, move on. 
>  > 
>  > But really, how can they do something about someone else's software?
>  > They're in the same boat as you, in that situation, use it or something
>  > else.
> 
> I must be missing something incredibly simple here.  If I'm the
> "project lead" for Fedora, I find somebody who just knows and cares so
> much about X and anoint him or her to be the "X project lead".  This
> person cares so much to have a kick-ass X set of RPMs that they
> collect or build FOSS X software, drivers in this case, and build when
> it comes to ATI or nVidia.  So the first ATI or nVidia FOSS drivers
> suck dead moose balls, but more people want to scratch that itch,
> people using Suse or Ubuntu or Debian or whatever.

Is the problem that you can't get dual heads going?  Or what is the
problem exactly?  Have you tried the factory drivers?  What about the
livna drivers? 

LX
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