nvidia

[Les]

On Sun, 2007-10-28 at 20:14 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> --- Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Antonio Olivares wrote:
> > 
> > > Fedora will never take
> > > responsibility for closed source software/drivers
> > not
> > > working correctly.  You are at your own risk.  
> > 
> > Wait - are you saying that they _do_ take
> > responsibility for the open 
> > source they distribute?  
> 
> I am not implying that, but since you conclude that on
> your own, the upstream developers and the fedora
> developers work hand in hand to fix code and release
> fixes for them.  But for nvidia code and drivers they
> are not to take any blame for the success/failure of
> the binary drivers.  That's why there is the "use at
> your risk" part in the statement.  
> 
> >Who should I call the next
> > time my firewire 
> > drives aren't recognized or an update kernel won't
> > boot?  
> 
> You can do a number of things that might/might not get
> answered
> (1) File Bug Reports
> (2) File RFE's
> (3) complain, complain, complain, and hope that
> someone listens and tries to help
> (4) wait patiently till a fix makes its way via
> updates
> 
> >How soon will 
> > someone be over to fix it?
> 
> Depends on the issues and the severity of the bugs. 
> Developers work hard and try to release updates to fix
> problems.  
> 
> > 
> > -- 
> >    Les Mikesell
> >     lesmikesell at gmail.com
> > 
> > -- 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Antonio 
> 
You left out getting the sources for the OS and submitting a fix for the
interface, or comparing the version with which the driver worked and the
version where the driver doesn't work and telling the development team
to help isolate the problem. 

Regards,
Les H