ATI video comes out of the closet
Karl Larsen
k5di at zianet.com
Fri Sep 7 11:24:58 UTC 2007
Les Mikesell wrote:
> Matthew Flaschen wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>> So far the nVidia video card on my motherboard has been the one
>>>> biggest head acke in this computer. It is wonderful with Windows I
>>>> hear but it sucks on Linux. Had I known....
>>> Are you running the driver that nVidia gives away and fedora makes you
>>> go out of your way to install and use?
>>
>> I think you mean nVidia makes you go out of the way.
>
> No I don't mean that. I don't have to make any extra effort for
> nVidia drivers on Windows or Macs. nVidia themselves are doing more
> work for the Linux version since they can't count on a stable
> interface. Fedora could redistribute the driver as provided by nVidia
> but chooses not to.
>
>> People can get
>> FOSS Intel drivers with full rights directly from Fedora, so I don't
>> think Fedora is the issue here.
>
> Well we disagree, then. I have no interest in having source or rights
> to do anything but use the devices. I just want drivers that work and
> that work should only have to be done once.
>
>> Apparently, ATI agrees.
>
> They are probably just tired of trying to keep up with the kernel
> breaking the interface in every update. It will be interesting to see
> how many people _really_ are able to do better than the vendor
> engineers at writing drivers, though.
>
The nVidia drivers that I yum installed yesterday were written it
appears for the latest F7 kernel and the new motherboard nVidia video
system. I tried again for a big format on my monitor and it worked great.
The /etc/X11/xorg.conf is a real bear now. The nVidia rpm rewrote it.
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Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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