Re: Fedora 10 and Nvidia - text splash
Originally Posted by
BigSilly
OK I've fixed it for now. It looks like the option I needed was vga=792, which makes more sense anyway. I now get the lovely new splash at boot. Great.
However, I still have some concerns about the future of Nvidia and Linux. Sure, it's easy enough to say "go buy ATI", and sure I may do that, but that's really not a long term solution for Linux on the whole. Everyone is much better off if Nvidia and other such hardware vendors are on board and positive.
As things stand, how is the state of play with Nvidia and Linux at the moment? Anyone here have any real insight into it? Thanks.
If we all just roll over and take it, nvidia won't be motivated at all to change status quo. In that sense, I applaud Fedora for taking this step. However, there's nothing about Fedora that will ever not let you use Nvidia's binary graphics driver, and it will always be packaged in RPM Fusion for easy install. All Fedora is going to do is switch to Nouveau as the default driver, replacing the currently awful nv.
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