Re: How many people need to use the proprietary nvidia driver ? (Or other non kms driver ?)

[Andrew Haley]

On 12/23/2009 09:53 AM, Andrew Haley wrote:
> On 12/23/2009 04:21 AM, Linuxguy123 wrote:
> > Please reply if you need to ( ie must) use the proprietary nvidia driver
> > instead of the nouveau driver.
> >
> > Or some other video driver that doesn't support kernel mode switching.
> >
> > DON'T reply otherwise, I don't want to hear a debate on the free
> > versions versus proprietary or anything else.
>
> I'm still using the proprietary driver because I need full dual-link DVI
> support at 2560x1600 resolution.  I haven't found a free driver that can
> do that.

Actually, I withdraw that comment.  I just installed F12 with all the updates
and I don't need the proprietary nvidia driver.  Big congrats to the developers:
one more piece of unfree software I no longer need.

Andrew.