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

[Ben Boeckel]

Linuxguy123 wrote:

> 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.

Using nv, I have it working just fine. This has a mobile card (NVS 140 M or 
something) and if that's a remotely new desktop, it should be easily 
outperforming this thing. If nv doesn't work, try nouveau.

The bug report you submitted was rightly closed. It's not a general KDE 
issue, otherwise everyone would see it. We cannot do ANYTHING about the 
blob working or not. We don't have the source, so we can't fix it.

--Ben