linuxgeek: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Fedora 12

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 12:16:55PM -0500, J wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 11:51, Roy <linuxcanuck@gmail.com> wrote:

> > I should be able to get a proprietary driver. It is a common card that has
> > been around for awhile and works in all distros. It is just that I can't get
> > it to work properly in this one. Thanks for any help.
>
> http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_190.42.html
> http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_amd64_190.42.html
>
> Would one of those work?

As far as I understood, Roy is looking for a simpler way, that is,
through Fedora SOP rather than going to NVidia. (Especially as he's not
really into Fedora, probably testing for his excellent blog.)

>
> And more importantly, this:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Xorg/3rdPartyVideoDrivers
>
> Now not to sound flippant, because I don't know the history there, but
> didn't any previous version of Fedora work for you? Of course, that
> question only applies if you are expecting to use F12/nVidia drivers
> to do professional work that pays your rent. If you are just
> exploring and experimenting, then disregard that question.

There's a lot of stuff going on with NVidia drivers with Fedora--as
mentioned previously, Fedora actually pays someone to work on it.

They have made good progress with the noveau driver, but as mentioned,
not quite there yet as far as 3D.
>
> If you ARE using this to do professional work and pay the rent, the
> question stands. There's a reason why corporate IT is notoriously
> slow to adopt new software. Again, not being flippant, just curious
> about why you'd want to run bleeding edge OSs for production work.

While only guessing, of course, I suspect it's material for his blog.
Roy's stated here and there, that he's not a huge fan of rpm based
distributions.

(Roy, not trying to read your mind, I just know that you're often busy
and Jeff has an enquiring mind, so I feel that attempting to ease it
gives me good karma).

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