Plymouth on ATI and nVidia

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed Oct 29 16:28:06 UTC 2008


Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 14:52 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
>> First of all
>> Nvidia does not work and so far and there is nothing that indicates it 
>> will work in the near future.
> 
> Truly a bummer! Given the large number of nVidia card users there are, I
> would think this should be more of a priority. Please don't let this
> turn into a philosophical discussion (aka a flame fest) on nVidia vs.
> others. A lot of people use nVidia cards - we need to deal with that and
> respond to the end user population accordingly...

Not philosophical. Just a matter of not having the source code to fix 
the proprietary drivers. However the reverse engineering effort can 
yield some results albeit in a delayed manner. Refer

http://fedoramagazine.wordpress.com/2008/10/21/interview-fedora-10s-better-startup/

Rahul




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