Re: Usability issue, newly installed Fedora KDE plasma

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On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 5:17 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan
<pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-09-29 at 15:36 +0200, Morten W. Petersen wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 11:47 AM, Laurent Rineau
>> <laurent.rineau__fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Le Friday, September 29, 2017 3:32:10 AM CEST Steven Haigh a écrit :
>> > > On Friday, 29 September 2017 9:58:14 AM AEST Ed Greshko wrote:
>> > > > On 09/29/17 03:18, Morten W. Petersen wrote:
>> > > > > I recently decided to try out Fedora, and installed it on my desktop
>> > > > > computer.  It has multiple sound cards, and I blogged about the
>> > > > > process here:
>> > > > >
>> > > > > http://blogologue.com/frames?url=http://blogologue.com/blog_entry?id=15
>> > > > > 061
>> > > > > 68845X29
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Today I looked around in the system settings menu, and found that I
>> > > > > could set the preferred sound device there.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Wouldn't it be a bit easier for a novice user to configure the
>> > > > > preferred sound device from the sound panel in the taskbar?  At least
>> > > > > to begin with.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > And sound settings is easier to understand than "multimedia".
>> > > >
>> > > > If you must use nVidia drivers there is a much easier way to do it than
>> > > > you write about in your blog.  The fine folks over at RPMfusion have
>> > > > made it as simply enabling their repositories and typing "dnf install
>> > > > akmod-nvidia" for all the newer generation cards.
>> > >
>> > > Are the RPMFusion drivers still way behind?
>> >
>> > They are. That is why I would recommand, nowdays, to use the Negativo
>> > repositories. The commands to use are described here:
>> >
>> >   https://negativo17.org/nvidia-driver/
>>
>> Well is this splintering of NVIDIA driver maintenance something that has
>> some good reasons or is it simply something like technical purism?
>>
>> I saw something about 96 DPI in the configuration section of negativo17.org
>> but didn't quite get what that was about.
>
> As Ed already said, maybe you should ask on the RPMfusion lists.

Yeah I'll probably do that if nobody here has some thoughts on it.

-Morten

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