On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:07:14 -0700
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
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> 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
>
> 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?
Has the "see Figure.1" ethos jumped from VMS to Linux?
With a gentle touch of "see Figure.1" ethos, please take the time to read:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Foundations
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Objectives
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ForbiddenItems
To put it bluntly: the fact that third-party proprietary drivers do not
work in *any* branch of Fedora is not a Fedora bug.
You can complain to your hardware vendor instead.
Why maintain Flightgear and other 3d programs if there
is no way to run them properly?
As amazing as this sounds, FlightGear and other 3D programs do run
properly with free software drivers on a lot of video cards.
Just not on *any* video card though.
You can have a look at the freedesktop website to see which hardware
works and which does not:
http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/RadeonFeature
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Intel
Some models are even available fanless.
François