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

[Anne Wilson]

On Friday 16 January 2009 14:24:26 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.
>
Then take it up with NVidia.  I have used folderview with the free nv driver 
since KDE 4.0.

Anne
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