[mythtv-users] nVidia & Red Hat (was: apt-get couldn't find package error)

daryl faulds nannyseeker2003 at yahoo.com
Mon Jun 14 05:33:02 EDT 2004


--- "Jarod C. Wilson" <jcw at wilsonet.com> wrote:
> Let me clarify my position here. I didn't say I
> thought the situation 
> needed to be changed (but I can see how it would be
> read that way). I 
> simply meant the situation wasn't going to change
> with the 
> closed-source nature of the nvidia driver. However,
> I *don't* think the 
> situation needs to change, I'm quite happy with the
> way things are, and 
> I will continue to use the closed-source nvidia
> driver. I just think 
> people need to have more realistic expectations of
> Red Hat. Why are 
> they to blame when a 3rd-party driver doesn't work
> on day one of a new 
> release?
> 
> I fully understand and support nVidia's need to
> protect their source, 
> given that they are sharing the codebase from their
> Windows drivers, 
> which is their real cash cow. Like Red Hat, they're
> in business to make 
> money, so they aren't going to just give away the
> farm to, say, ATI. 
> Same reason ATI's fglrx drivers are closed-source
> also. I applaud both 
> companies for even making the effort to put *any*
> significant work into 
> Linux drivers and making them freely available,
> regardless of license.
> 
> Again, I *do not* think nVidia should open-source
> their driver, and I'm 
> not an open-source-or-die advocate. Just lets not
> bitch at Red Hat when 
> someone else's stuff is broken.
> 
> -- 
> Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE
> jcw at wilsonet.com

May I say that I was not complaining about RedHat for
nVidia cards, although it might have sounded like
that. It would be impossible for RedHat to have any
control over nVidia or ATI cards for that matter.

Also I find nVidia 400 series cards work well with FC2
using their proprietary software, although you do have
to recompile the 2.6 kernel. I suppose it's not really
a Fedora kernel after that, but I guess that doesn't
bother me much. I thought mythtv ran better on FC1
with a recompiled kernel too.

At least there is a fix for that problem. Maybe it's
the aggressive release schedule but there is a lot of
other things to fix using FC2 and FC1 hits its
end-of-life soon.




	
		
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