Fedora 9 makes Linux easy

[Tom Horsley]

> > Obviously the reviewer doesn't need the nvidia drivers to use his
> > display :-).
> 
> You don't need the proprietary driver just to use the display and every 
> time the Xorg ABI changes, proprietary drivers lag behind.

You do when the nv driver has convinced itself it can only run
at 1024x768:

   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=234824

(The nvidia driver doesn't suffer from this confusion. I really wish
the Xorg folks would add a universal "ITellYouThreeTime" option to force
the use of my own mode line with any driver regardless of what nonsense
it has convinced itself of :-).