[mythtv-users] nVidia & Red Hat

[J. Donavan Stanley]

Jarod C. Wilson wrote:

> On Jun 13, 2004, at 10:23 AM, J. Donavan Stanley wrote:
>
>> How many open source drivers do you know that have *good* 3D support?
>
>
> None. I use nVidia cards and the nvidia driver almost exclusively. And 
> on Red Hat, of course. I just don't upgrade to the very latest thing 
> they put out right away, because of the anticipated wait for the 
> nvidia driver to catch up. Same thing happened with Red Hat Linux 9's 
> release and the debut of nptl in their kernels. I wait until there are 
> functional drivers again, or use the nv driver in the interim, if 
> feasible. FC1 was out a month before I switched to it, and I'm still 
> running on it for my Myth boxes. (Hell, at work, we have about 100 
> machines all running Red Hat Linux 7.3 still)...


Yeah I can't for the life of me understand folks that want to dive into 
the latest greatest without doing some research first, and then complain 
when crap doesn't work.  "foo doesn't work with bar fix this for me" 
when a few minutes of research would have told them that before the 
problem bit them.


> I understand that Nvidia needs to update their drivers, but if that 
> zealotry is the party line from FC then they need to get their heads 
> out of their asses.
>
> If you buy a car put in after-market modifications, you can't go back 
> to the dealer and bitch at them when the mods cause problems. Red Hat 
> can't be expected to support something someone else has complete 
> control over.

I 100% agree that it's Nvidia's problem to fix but telling folks 
essentially "thats what you get for using closed source drivers" when 
there are no open source drivers that are worth a crap.  Theres a large 
number of zealots that believe it's open source all the way regardless 
of how useful/functional the OS solution is vs the closed source one.