On 10/16/10 10:16 AM, Valent Turkovic wrote: > On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 5:59 PM, James McKenzie > <jjmckenzie51@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 10/15/10 1:31 PM, Dean S. Messing wrote: >>> On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 09:50:12 -0700 James McKenzie wrote: >>>> On 10/14/10 1:52 AM, Valent Turkovic wrote: >>>>> This post has raised some heat in blog comments and also in Fedora >>>>> mailing list discussion. >>>> Discussing OpenSource versus Proprietary always brings heat. Folks have >>>> to remember thought, that the OpenSource drivers do not support features >>>> and products that the proprietary drivers do, due to the 'hiding' of >>>> information by Vendors and the time it takes to black box test a >>>> particular feature. That is a fact of life and we all need to keep that >>>> in mind when someone asks: >>>> >>>> "Open or closed source"? >>>> >>>> Well what video card do you have and what do you plan to do with it? >>>> >>>> Older model, 2D and simple 3D: Open Source, almost always. >>>> Newer model (not on the OSS driver supported list) or complex 3D. >>>> Proprietary, mainly. As the OSS driver picks up more features AND the >>>> video card becomes 'older' then the OSS driver should be selected over >>>> proprietary. >>>> >>>> Simple answer, complex solution as information has to be gathered and >>>> suggestions should be made with caveats "This works for me" or "Your >>>> Mileage May Vary". >>>> >>>> No need to argue here. This is about as cut and dried as it can be >>>> made. Some folks swear by Open Source, others at it. Some swear by >>>> nVidia/Catalyst/Intel, others at it. Nobody is ever going to be >>>> completely satisfied by someone else's solution if they are not doing >>>> EXACTLY the same things. >>>> >>>> James McKenzie >>> A voice of reason on this issue. Amazing. :-) >>> >>> As for me, on every new Fedora release I install (currently running F13) >>> I try the latest open source driver first. Then I install the NVidia >>> driver (from the rpmfusion-nonfree repo). The latter has not yet failed >>> to be snapper when running the KDE Desktop Effects than the former. >>> That's on my desktop machines. >>> >> Hopefully the Open Source community will figure out how to support your >> unique configuration and make us all happy. Until then, you have to do >> what you have to do. >> >> Thank you for the nice comment too. I tend to live in the commercial >> world but use Fedora/CentOS in my private life. >> >> James McKenzie > I'll probably keep away from NVidia drivers for now, even if more > people voted for them. Just because I would like to test Nuveao driver > on different NVidia cards and see for myself how do they work. > That is great, but I doubt that the Noveau drivers will support four screens, but it would be fantastic if this driver did support multiple cards over multiple screens to present something like 4096 x 3000 (I know the first number is correct but the second is a little low). Does this driver do something like that now? James McKenzie -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
