On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 5:17 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan
<pocallaghan(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, 2017-09-29 at 15:36 +0200, Morten W. Petersen wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 11:47 AM, Laurent Rineau
> <laurent.rineau__fedora(a)normalesup.org> wrote:
> > Le Friday, September 29, 2017 3:32:10 AM CEST Steven Haigh a écrit :
> > > On Friday, 29 September 2017 9:58:14 AM AEST Ed Greshko wrote:
> > > > On 09/29/17 03:18, Morten W. Petersen wrote:
> > > > > I recently decided to try out Fedora, and installed it on my
desktop
> > > > > computer. It has multiple sound cards, and I blogged about the
> > > > > process here:
> > > > >
> > > > >
http://blogologue.com/frames?url=http://blogologue.com/blog_entry?id=15
> > > > > 061
> > > > > 68845X29
> > > > >
> > > > > Today I looked around in the system settings menu, and found that
I
> > > > > could set the preferred sound device there.
> > > > >
> > > > > Wouldn't it be a bit easier for a novice user to configure
the
> > > > > preferred sound device from the sound panel in the taskbar? At
least
> > > > > to begin with.
> > > > >
> > > > > And sound settings is easier to understand than
"multimedia".
> > > >
> > > > If you must use nVidia drivers there is a much easier way to do it
than
> > > > you write about in your blog. The fine folks over at RPMfusion have
> > > > made it as simply enabling their repositories and typing "dnf
install
> > > > akmod-nvidia" for all the newer generation cards.
> > >
> > > Are the RPMFusion drivers still way behind?
> >
> > They are. That is why I would recommand, nowdays, to use the Negativo
> > repositories. The commands to use are described here:
> >
> >
https://negativo17.org/nvidia-driver/
>
> Well is this splintering of NVIDIA driver maintenance something that has
> some good reasons or is it simply something like technical purism?
>
> I saw something about 96 DPI in the configuration section of
negativo17.org
> but didn't quite get what that was about.
As Ed already said, maybe you should ask on the RPMfusion lists.
Yeah I'll probably do that if nobody here has some thoughts on it.
-Morten
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