Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Sun Aug 10 06:41:33 UTC 2008


Tim wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 22:53 +0200, Bjørn Ivar Johnsen wrote:
>> I just realized that I have to download a driver to nvidia card
>> specially for Linux!!!
> 
> Just FYI, that sort of thing *may* or may not be necessary.  Fedora
> already comes with a driver for many NVidia graphics chipsets, but you
> may have a card that it won't work with, and you may need the closed
> binary NVidia driver maintained by NVidia, themselves.  Which, as far as
> I thought, is maintained more often.
> 
> There are some problems with using the NVidia driver, it's a closed
> binary, and you're up a creek without a paddle if it interacts badly
> with your system.  I don't use it on two of my PCs, one because their
> driver is worse (on that PC) than the one that came with Fedora, the
> other PC because the Fedora supplied driver works just fine.

I, for one, would not say "up a creek without a paddle if it interacts 
badly".  I had a problem with the closed source nvidia drivers a while back. 
  I reported it to nvidia and it was fixed in the next release.




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