Fedora 9/10 and NVIDIA ?

[kevin kempter]

On Oct 27, 2008, at 3:52 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:

> kevin kempter writes:
>
>> Hi All;
>> I'm considering the purchase of a Dell 64bit laptop with an NVIDIA  
>> video card.
>> - Intel Core 2 Duo Extreme Edition X9100 3.06GHz, 1067MHZ, 6M L2  
>> Cache Dual Core (224-3154)
>> - 1GB NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700M Mobile Precision M6400 Covet (320-7518)
>> Anyone have any thoughts per Fedora 9/10 compatibility, potential  
>> issues, gotcha's, etc ?

Because I'm a database consultant and I need a power-house machine.  
The one I'm looking at has 2 internal drives in a RAID config, and I  
can max out the memory at 16Gig

The Dell box I'm looking at however is certified to work with Red Hat  
(RHEL 5).


>>
>
> Rather than committing yourself to endlessly screwing around with  
> Nvidia's non-free binary blobs, and all the headaches they bring,  
> why don't you just get one of Dell's Linux-friendly laptops that  
> come with Intel video cards that are supported by x.org right out of  
> the box?
>
> http://www.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/nseries_nb?s=bsd
>
>
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