nvidia

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Mon Oct 29 13:03:49 UTC 2007


David Boles wrote:
>>
>>> If you find a Linux distribution, a free one, that is different from what
>>> your attitude describes will you post the name here?
>> Most of my machines run Centos, where the interface doesn't change every 
>> week.
>>
>>> What is your latest disaster this time anyway? I missed that part of this
>>> thread.
>> My only recent ones have been the kernels that wouldn't boot on IBM MPT 
>> scsi controllers.  I gave up on fedora on any machine with nvidia or 
>> firewire long ago.
> 
> 
> Is that "IBM MPT scsi controllers" only? That does sound like a possible
> bug. Did you write a ticket on that?

There were 2 similar issues in recent months - I think one was a larger 
problem and was fixed in a few days.   It may not have affected adaptec 
controllers.  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=251577  But 
how can things like that get pushed out with no testing?  Most of my 
machines (obviously not running fedora...) are in remote locations where 
failing to boot is a serious problem.

> Strange. Which version (release) of Fedora? Core 6? Fedora 7? I ask
> because I have an Nvidia graphics card and the firewire on my machine.

This was FC6 which had otherwise been stable for months.

> I was using Nvidia graphics cards when I first tried Linux at RedHat v5.2.
> I think it was v5.2. It came with a "Linux for Dummies" book. I built my
> current machine around the time of Fedora 7. I, personally, do not have
> anything firewire but my son's camcorder works when attached. It did in
> Fedora 7 and still does in Fedora 8.

I use external firewire drives to periodically mirror some internal 
drives for an offsite backup copy.  It worked in FC1 and about 25% of 
the time since. So fedora has just not been usable for anything 
important for years.  And I am mildly amused at the claims of how much 
better open source drivers are...

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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