On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 22:00 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> FWIW, it would mean (at least) one less fedora devel guinea
pig.
The biggest problem with the nvidia drivers is that when something
breaks, and a kernel or X devel person sees that the user is using the
nvidia drivers, then they're stuck. They can't go look through code and
find the problem. They come up to the binary-only nvidia driver and have
to stop.
That's a whole world of no-fun.
And the sad reality is, lots of people use these drivers and almost all
of them post about bugs in X or at the kernel level with these drivers
loaded.
Yeah, I can understand the frustration at this. I agree that if
someone's having a problem with an binary-only driver, their only
recourse is the provider of that driver.
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Aaron Gaudio <prothonotar(a)tarnation.dyndns.org>