Could/should the new nvidia driver be added to the release candidate live release ?

Linuxguy123 linuxguy123 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 16 14:24:26 UTC 2009


On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 07:54 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Friday 16 January 2009 00:22:25 Linuxguy123 wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 00:38 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > > On Thursday 15 January 2009, Linuxguy123 wrote:
> > > > There was a lot of user frustration that prior versions of KDE didn't
> > > > work properly because of issues attributed to nvidia.  I think its our
> > > > responsibility to test/work this out in the release candidate and make
> > > > sure that things do work properly now.
> > >
> > > It is not. Proprietary drivers are not supported.
> > >
> > > I don't see why we should put stuff on the live CD which are not part of
> > > Fedora. We want you to test Fedora, not some proprietary crap.
> >
> > BECAUSE YOUR USERS NEED IT TO FULLY USE KDE !
> >
> No they don't.  Please stop assuming that your preference is a general need.

I have been unable to use the folderview widget since installing F10
because apparently it has a problem with my nvidia driver.  I created a
bugzilla entry for it here:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=473446

Therefore I conclude that a properly functioning nVidia driver is NOT a
"preference".  Its a necessity. 






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