Fedora Core 6 HUGE problem

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 28 May 2007 22:18:11 Kam Leo wrote:
> On 5/28/07, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > 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
>
> The problem may not have anything to do with the driver for the
> graphics adapter. A few of my systems have embedded graphics adapters.
> Numerous distributions(including Fedora) have choked on the disabled
> embedded adapter. When that happens I resort to text mode install and
> run system-config-display or it's equivalent post install.

Exactly what both Antonio and I told him to do, yesterday moening.

Anne