On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX
N2469R<caf(a)omen.com> wrote:
On 08/11/2009 04:47 AM, fedora-test-list-request(a)redhat.com wrote:
>
> Message: 9 Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 01:05:06 -0700 From: Adam Williamson
> <awilliam(a)redhat.com> Subject: Re: Rawhide breaks Nvidia again To: For
> testers of Fedora Core development releases <fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com>
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> text/plain On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 00:36 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
> wrote:
>>
>> > Last week I was able to get the swell Nvidia driver to work with
>> > Rawhide,
>> > but Monday's Rawhide breaks it again with an undefined symbol.
>> > Apparently
>> > this symbol has gone missing now and then for years now even in BSD.
>> > > dlopen: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so: undefined
>> > symbol:
>> > resVgaShared
>> > > Is it a Microsoft plot to keep Linux from enjoying high performance
>> > graphics
>> > in (relative) peace and quiet?
>>
>
> Could you_please_ stop asking about this? We've explained, multiple
> times, that we are not particularly interested in the proprietary driver
> and it's not on-topic for this list. Why do you keep asking about it?
>
> -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk:
> adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org
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Has the "see Figure.1" ethos jumped from VMS to Linux?
Why maintain Flightgear and other 3d programs if there
is no way to run them properly? Do the Fedora developers
work in such a noisy environment that they don't notice the
roar of the unregulated GPU fan?
It does not matter how often you compain here we _cannot_ fix it but nvidia can.
Here is a statement from them about supporting the current xserver:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.freedesktop.xorg/40136
For future questions about this topic talk to the people how _can_ fix
it (ie. nvidia), you can reach them via there forums:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14