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[Josh Boyer]

On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 5:04 AM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
<caf at omen.com> wrote:
> On 10/08/2012 07:44 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>>
>> On 8 October 2012 18:01, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R <caf at omen.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 10/08/2012 04:53 PM, Dave Jones wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 04:29:18PM -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>    > Noveau still fails now and then.  Until we get a reliable Noveau we
>>>> should
>>>>    > make it easy to install the Nvidoa driver IMO.
>>>>    You're using the wrong distribution.
>>>>
>>>>          Dave
>>>
>>> What distribution should I use then?
>>
>> To move away from zingers to something more grounded.. Fedora is not
>> going to have closed source kernel modules etc in its installer. If
>> you are needing that versus adding it yourself afterwords then a
>> distribution like Ubuntu is probably what you are looking for. If you
>> are ok with installing it afterwords yourself, then it will always be
>> allowed but problems on a system with the drivers really won't be
>> 'supported'.
>>
> I don't insist the Nvidia drivers be included in the install
> I don't mind installing Nvidia myself on the machine I care about.
>
> I just wish you wouldn't break it so often.

We're doing nothing special to break it.  Upstream changes and nVidia
has to play catch-up.  It's one of the well known perils of using closed
source drivers.

josh