On Wednesday 16 December 2009 18:37:01 Rex Dieter wrote: > Eli Wapniarski wrote: > > > There is a world of difference between reality and ideology; between the > > actual and the potential. When the Nouveau drivers are ready I will be > > using them (I genuinely believe opensource is the superior development > > model.) Until then I need to use my computer for work and play. I need to > > get things done. If its a choice between 3/4 there but I can't do what I > > need to or want it to and 90% there and I can... guess what choice I'm > > going to make. > > Precisely. Do what works for you. > > In the meantime, fedora and it's developers have to do what works for them. > > The pain is when these 2 clash. nvidia's drivers may give you (some of) > what you want, but it causes is the source of pain/frustration (esp to > fedora developers), due mostly to false bugs and support requests that most > often have nothing to do with fedora and everything to do with nvidia's > driver. I beg to differ. I would have to say that the frustration for user and developer are just about on par. We are out of sync. That Nvidia can't support this modset thngy (which sounds cool from a geek point of view but as a user makes me go yawn) due to Licensing issues is not a bug purse. Without fully functional OpenSource alternatives to the Nvidia drivers their really isn't much of choice but to use the working proprietary stuff. And that developers won't accomodate reality creates an out of sync issue. We users can't help the developers and the developers can't help the users. We're both stuck. Eli -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
