3D Support for NVIDIA
Angel
angelsapocalypse at gmail.com
Mon Dec 17 10:33:40 UTC 2007
Intel Pentium 4 (2.4 GHZ),1 GB DDR RAM,nVIDIA Geforce FX 5200 (128
MB),SAMSUNG SATA hard disk (128 GB),SAMSUNG DVD RW,SAMSUNG 17" Monitor.
You wanna tell,Fedora can't support this?So I have to buy a new system?
Funny.Very funny.
:-$
Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Yes, but…
>
> /me looks around
>
> Well, where are they? If this was so, he'd have his 3D up a long time
> ago.
>
> There are certainly here people who are willing to help. But the help
> he needs is the kind of help that's hard to get: the "help me find the
> magic button to push, that makes everything work" kind of help. Others
> already told him what he should do, but that wasn't good enough. Too
> much work, see? He just wants to push a button, or two, and get
> everything working.
>
> Now, there's nothing wrong with that. It's reasonable to expect things
> to work out of the box, but the sad truth of reality is that Linux is
> not there yet. You have to either do your homework and buy hardware
> that's supported by free software, or be prepared to invest time to
> get everything set up and working together, and be prepared for the
> possibility that your hardware is not supported at all. But if you
> don't pre-qualify your hardware, and it doesn't work, if you expect
> someone just to tell you where The Magic Button™ is, that makes
> everything working, well, you're in for a big disappointment.
>
> It wasn't so long ago that I was shopping for a webcam here. I asked
> here, and got a few references to hardware that works out of the box,
> with Linux. I didn't just waltz into Best Buy, bought the first $10
> webcam on the shelf, go home, plug it in, then threw a fit because it
> didn't work right then and there.
>
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