24 Feb
2012
24 Feb
'12
8:35 p.m.
On 02/24/2012 02:29 AM, Robin Gareus wrote:
I do. They should just keep up the NV drivers that DO work until the
Nouveau drivers also work AND SUPPORT THE SAME HARDWARE, instead of
dropping NV completely.
Yah, other distros have all kinds of complex problems keeping them
around. Not.
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David
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On 02/24/2012 06:19 AM, david wrote:
Well, there's no real alternative unless you want an Intel-only setup.
My 2 laptops (which are Intel only) have their video problems, too,
because the FLOSS Intel drivers still have issues, too.
On 02/23/2012 07:03 PM, hermann wrote:
The borked part is where you gave your money to NVidia. Am Freitag, den 24.02.2012, 02:45 +0100 schrieb
Ralf Mardorf:
But still borked.
Don't use a borked distro! If your distro don't provide the nv driver,
but replace it with an experimental driver, that knowingly isn't
working
for half of the NVIDIA graphics on the market, such as the nouveau
driver, than your distro is borked!
No, then your distro is full GPL'ed. ;-) What's even more borked is to blame the free
software community for the
subsequent problems you experience.
I don't blame the free software community. But the free software
community is the one developing the drivers. I certainly can't blame the
vendor for them, since they had nothing to do with developing them.
I have a
couple of motherboards here, one new in my
desktop PC, with NVidia graphics. The Nouveau driver doesn't support the
old NVidia hardware, and Debian Sid no longer includes the NV driver
that DOES work with old hardware. The Nouveau driver barely supports the
NVidia in my newest motherboard.
Sorry, I don't consider the Nouveau driver ready for primetime,
Does anyone say it is? Respect the people who /fight/ for your freedom. they
should still supply and continue developing the NV driver, or give up
the attempt at idealism and include the NVidia binary drivers.
I'm afraid it's not that simple.