Re: Another funny update?

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On Tuesday, June 22, 2010 02:47:24 pm Marcel Rieux wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Dennis Gilmore <dennis@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > We have developers working really hard to make things just work in a
> > completely free and open way.  they are fight a tough battle that is part
> > of
> > what defines fedora for what it is.
> 
> The best way to win this "tough battle" is to provide precise instructions
> on how to get rid of NVIDIA kernel modules once there're installed. If you
> can't dig this I don't believe it's any use discussing.
> 
> > I honestly don't care if you think we
> > should support nvidia binary blobs or not.
> 
> Where did I say you should "support nvidia binary blobs"? Is giving
> instructions on how to uninstall the module any way to support NVIDIA
> drivers?
> 
> In my world, if you explain how to install the NVIDIA driver and get teh
> Nouveau driver out of the way -- and RPMFusion does this! -- you support
> NVIDIA. If you do the opposite, you support Nouveau.
> 
> If Nouveau developers can't understand this, my take is that, as bad as
> NVIDIA support can be, Nouveau's going to be worst. Providing instructions
> on how to install a driver seems to me like a bare minimum.

reverse whatever it was you did to enable the nvidia driver, then you get  
Nouveau since its the default.

Dennis

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