On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 06:06:58PM +0200, GĂ©rard Milmeister wrote:
People should stop blame NVIDIA for everything because of the binary-only
drivers.
Well, we can certainly blame them for being clueless.
'"It's so hard to write a graphics driver that open-sourcing it would not
help," said Andrew Fear, Nvidia's software product manager.'
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6061491.html
And please note that we're not asking for an open-source driver.
Hardware specs would suffice.
not 3D-acceleration, but TwinView. Reverting to the open-source
driver
would break my configuration and not just make some games stop working.
Last I heard, NVidia was responsible (or was paying the person responsible)
for maintaining the nv driver. So they're actually responisible for that, too.
Also, NVIDIA does not support Fedora Core 5. They support Linux in
general and simply cannot follow every little technical issue of
hundreds of distributions.
Which is exactly why they should publish hardware specs and let the
distributions (well, the X.org developers) handle the problem themselves.
Emmanuel