!! NVIDIA WORKS !!!

[Adam Williamson]

On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 13:17 -0400, Scott Robbins wrote:

> > > It isn't like people try to break it, but when adding changes nobody
> > > (rightfully) cares whether it breaks it or not, its NVIDIA's job to
> > > unbreak it.
> 
> I've never quite understood this logic.  If it's working, there is a
> change in Fedora, and it doesn't work, this is NVidia's job to fix?  

Usually, yes, because the change is 'new version of X server' or
something like that. We are not going to hold back F/OSS components
because a proprietary vendor can't update its drivers in a timely
fashion. If the change is a bug in Fedora then obviously it would be
fixed in Fedora.

> I think Fedora needs NVidia support, as it probably has 30 percent of
> the market or so (pulling figures out of the air, but seems today's
> video cards are either ATI, NVidia, or Intel), more than NVidia needs
> Fedora.  (A quick google indicates that for Q2 2010, it was Intel 54.3
> percent, AMD 24.5 and NVidia with 19.8, which comes to 98.6.  

This is why we ship the nouveau driver, which provides support for
NVIDIA hardware using code we can actually maintain.
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