Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=220655 Summary: release notes does not mention 3rd party video drivers Product: Fedora Documentation Version: devel Platform: All OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: normal Component: release-notes AssignedTo: relnotes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ReportedBy: brian@xxxxxxx QAContact: kwade@xxxxxxxxxx Description of problem: I just put together a new motherboard, a new 1440x900 monitor, and a new FC6 install. I try to stay away from proprietary drivers because they've caused me nothing but problems in the past. I expected to have trouble with my 1440x900 monitor and I did (but that's a different issue). The problem is that the release notes don't say anything about proprietary video drivers. However, even a casual web search for how to fix up a 1440x900 display under Linux will result in plenty of web pages that discuss various proprietary drivers. So now the new Linux user is puzzled - if this driver is necessary, how to get it? Which copy to trust? Why wasn't it on the install media? Why won't yum just fetch it? I think the Release Notes owes the new user at least a short mention of proprietary video drivers and probably a pointer off to some place that describes them in more detail. Otherwise, the casual user will simply follow one or more of the sets of directions from the web, download a driver and go on, potentially screwing up some other part of his/her install (like libGL). At fedoraproject.org, Mike Harris spells out a lot of the pitfalls that come with these drivers so it's clearly a widespread problem. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Read release notes... Steps to Reproduce: 1. Find Linux newbie 2. Install FC6 on odd hardware 3. Stand back and watch Actual results: Screwed up libGL Expected results: I'd rather use free drivers but that doesn't look likely any time soon. Second choice would be to have a known good site to get these drivers from and a pointer in the release notes that tells me about it and why it is better than some random site. Additional info: -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee. -- Fedora-relnotes-content mailing list Fedora-relnotes-content@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-relnotes-content
