[Fedora] Re: Nvidia sucks, sucks, sucks !
Kim Lux
lux at diesel-research.com
Thu Nov 9 20:23:50 UTC 2006
On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 13:06 -0700, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
> Ingemar Nilsson wrote:
> > So you'd rather run in text mode trying to build the proprietary driver,
> > than unplug your second monitor and use the nv driver, at least until you
> > can find out how to build the nvidia driver?
> >
> See, I can totally understand this part of his (Kim) argument. It's
> the 10 year old mentality. I deal with it on a daily basis across the
> entire school district. As someone else pointed out, he has yet to grow
> out of it.
I apologize for not realizing that the there was a non proprietary
driver and that it could be co installed with the proprietary driver and
that it would run in the absence of the proprietary driver.
Maybe the reason I didn't realize there was a non proprietary driver is
because:
a) it doesn't run dual monitors, which I need, so it wasn't part of the
solution when I first set up my laptop, 2 years ago.
b) I don't spend my time researching driver options for my Linux box
c) I shouldn't need a second driver in the first place, especially one
that needs to be specially installed from an rpm ! Whatever happened to
bundling drivers with the kernel !
Do you know that I have no idea what mouse driver my laptop runs ?
None. I don't know the version, I don't know what its called, nothing.
I could look, but I don't have to ! When I install a new kernel, my
mouse doesn't quit working !
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Kim Lux, Diesel Research Inc.
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