fedora on asus M70VN-X1?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, Kevin Kofler wrote:

> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > anyone have good/bad/indifferent experience with one of these
> > running fedora?
> >
> > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220412
>
> No experience, but this thing has an NVidia graphics card. Those are
> the source of worlds of pain. I strongly recommend going with Intel
> integrated graphics instead (but NOT the GMA 500 "Poulsbo" - that
> one is not supported yet).

  philosophically, i don't like closed-source drivers any more than
the next geek, but sometimes you simply can't avoid getting an nvidia
card in some models of laptop.  in cases like that, as long as i can
install the downloadable driver and it works properly, i'm willing to
hold my nose.  and, i have to admit, for the most part, nvidia drivers
seem to work well.  i had one in an older dell inspiron and never had
any problems.

  it's not ideal but, barring any real issues, it's acceptable.

rday
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