Games doesent work in Fedora test 3

[Mike A. Harris]

On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Bjorn Andersen wrote:

>>Nvidia's binary proprietary drivers are unsupported, so unless 
>>this problem is reproduceable using the "nv" driver, or using 
>>alternate video hardware with stock provided/supported video 
>>drivers, it will most likely be closed as a duplicate of bug 
>>number 73733 along with the other 400 or so dupes.  ;o)
>
>HMMM, if all newer OpenGL games doesent work under Fedora, and 
>everybuddy doesent care, then we will newer get great games for 
>(Fedora/RedHat) Linux :-(

You misunderstand my point though.  I can care all I want about 
OpenGL games working in Linux.  One thing I can *NOT* do however, 
is fix bugs in Nvidia's proprietary drivers.  That requires the 
source code, and detailed specifications for the hardware, which 
Nvidia does not make available to anyone period.

So caring about something and being able to do something about it 
are two very different things.  Reporting bugs to us about stuff 
we can't fix isn't useful.  Reporting them to Nvidia however is 
useful as they have the source code of both their driver and the 
entire operating system since our OS is open source.

They have our source but we don't have theirs.


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Mike A. Harris     ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat