nvidia

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sun, 2007-10-28 at 22:37 -0400, David Boles wrote:
> on 10/28/2007 10:29 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> > David Boles wrote:
> >> on 10/28/2007 9:56 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> >>> Antonio Olivares wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Fedora will never take
> >>>> responsibility for closed source software/drivers not
> >>>> working correctly.  You are at your own risk.  
> >>> Wait - are you saying that they _do_ take responsibility for the open 
> >>> source they distribute?  Who should I call the next time my firewire 
> >>> drives aren't recognized or an update kernel won't boot?  How soon will 
> >>> someone be over to fix it?
> >>
> >> As soon as you pay for the software and the service call.
> >>
> >> You get what you pay for ya' know.  ;-)
> > 
> > And thus there is no difference at all in this respect between the third 
> > party binary and an open source component.  Except that the people 
> > providing the binary do have a reason to care if it works.
> 
> Not really. Nvidia releases buggy, doesn't work well drivers from time to
> time.

In my experience, the nv drivers at this moment are buggy and don't work
well.  

        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=249367

The proprietary drivers don't work perfectly with that card either, but
they do actually work.
        
What was your point?

> 
> If you find a Linux distribution, a free one, that is different from what
> your attitude describes will you post the name here?
> 
> All that I can tell you is that *I* am happy. As must be many others since
> there are only a few complaints.
> 
> What is your latest disaster this time anyway? I missed that part of this
> thread.
> 
> 
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                Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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