nforce3 250 gb SATA, NIC

[Rajmund Krivec]

On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Graydon wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 09:51:13PM +0200, Cimmo scripsit:
> > Rajmund Krivec ha scritto:
> >
> > >Will Fedora Core 4 support K8N-E (nVidia nForce 3 250 GB) SATA
> > >and gigabit NIC?
> > SATA is ok, but for my nforce4's integrated network there are a lot of
> > problems https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=152566
> >
> > But I can also read that someone else has some problems with nforce3
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=151445
> >
> > The main problem is that all redhat people are ignoring us.
>
> Nvidia's stuff all has proprietary drivers.  They are very resistant to
> telling anyone anything about how their stuff works, so the
> non-proprietary drivers are reverse-engineered, a slow and tedious and
> generally partial process.
>
> FLOSS support for anything Nvidia will generally suck.  The Redhat guys
> aren't going to even try to fix that, because until Nvidia decides that
> it wants to have good FLOSS drivers out there, there won't be any.
>
> Redhat can't change that.  People *not buying* Nvidia anything for use
> with with Linux and making it clear to Nvidia what they were doing
> *might* start to change that, but I doubt it.

Dear Colleagues,

1. I would buy that explanation if it were not for the fact that
the Fedore Core 2 (that's two, or T W O ) broke down on kernel upgrade
(its own installation not found, disk not mounted whether I use
root=/dev/hde3 or root=0303 or root=33:3 etc.). What has nVidia
to do with the fact that stock FC2 works on some motherboard and
FC2 upgrade and FC3, do not?

2. Second, do you speak from experience?

Best regards,
    Rajmund