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NVidia Releases Linux Drivers Supporting 4K Stacks
Supermathie writes "NVidia has finally released drivers for their chipsets and the 2.6 kernel that support 4K stacks. That means compatability with Fedora Core 2 kernels, people! View the README, visit their driver page, or download the package."
Richard Stallman:When I want freedom I'll work with whomever I damn well please.
Richard Stallman:You have to use what works, FOSS doesn't have decent replacements for most things, sorry RMS there's work to be done, we don't all get free grant money.
Remember those rental systems where you don't really own your system?
Richard Stallman:I guess the grants don't give him enough free money.
RMS, being the quintessential zealot has also stated that people should replace all closed software with FOSS even when it doesn't have the same capabilities, and encouraged people to never ever have a hand in writing proprietary software. RMS wants the power to tell you how to work, and how to use your system. He wants to be the one to tell you what is right and what is wrong as regards software, and what you do with it.
Quotes taken from here.
"I use a Mac because I'm just better than you are."
About a month ago I decided to give linux a try. And this time not just fiddling with VMWare, but really install it on my comp. My distro decision was FC2, since I had it on DVD (though I had heard some bad things about it). Before I had played around with Gentoo, Mandrake, SuSE, FC1 etc under VMWare. So after a week of fighting with the installer ( about few hours every day after work, pretty much my all spare time ) I finally discovered that I need to remove my SBLive to get linux installed on my system. So there goes the installation finally, I prepared the partitions in windows with PQMagic, that made things easy for me ( hda, hdb, hdc, wtf, I don't have such things, I just have C, D, E... ). So I started installing the software I needed. That is dc hub, dc client, irssi, firefox, thunderbird etc. So I spent about 2 to 3 nights to get those working properly, especially dc hub to start when I start the pc.. Goddamn, why oh why do you need all that init.d, rc5.d, dynamic links, script files.. At this point I was really starting to get pissed off with the complexity of linux. So now I had the essential software on my FC2 installation. Next thing to do was to set up ntfs-drives, not too difficult, just got the rpm, and some weird mount -t ntfs -commands. And it worked! Ofcourse fstab was totally different than mount, but there were lots of how-tos to be found. By this time google's admins were propably thinking about banning my ip for trying a DDOS attack. Ok, the system is now running smoothly. Now to get the tv-out working on my gf2gts. Shouldn't be that difficult, just get the drivers from nvidia and install those. And don't forget to edit your configuration files, since for some reason linux-programs are uncapable of doing things like that automatically. Well ofcourse that didn't work. After googling a while, I discovered the problem was my kernel and 4kstacks. So there I go downloading the 8kstack rpm of the kernel, after installing it everything should work smoothly. Except that I lost my NTFS-partitions again. And the NTFS-patch wouldn't work on the 8kstack kernel. So now I'm forced to compile the kernel. Luckily I had done this few time in VMWare, so I wasn't totally lost. After few hours ( so you compile and install it in 15 minutes ? Sry, I don't remember by heart all those little things you have to do after compiling the kernel, like reconfiguring grub ). And then to install the nvidia drivers. There was some problems again, but after few nights configuring the silly conf files I finally got it working ( there really is too few guides for xorg.. ). And with some nvtvout I even managed to get the tv-out to work without almost any problems! Wonderful! Except that I needed to type root password every time I started the program, since it has to be run as root. So only about a weeks worth of configuring and googling and booting again and again, I finally got my system up and running as I wanted it. BTW by this time the installation was totally broken, since I changed the locales to get finnish keyboard ( without UTF-8 ), YUM wouldn't work and random menus were in finnish. Don't know what I did wrong. All was fine, until I decided that KDE wasn't as snappy as GUI should be on a 1700+xp with 512MB mem. So few night trying to install xcfe, and then I finally decided that this linux-thingie totally fucking sucks ass, and I changed back to my sweet windows xp. Haven't regretted since.
-1 Fuck You
It's the Shiny Objects Factor. Please are gamers, and they try to be pro-free software at the same time. So they gladly install binary-only, proprietary, unfree device drivers to be able to see Shiny Objects on screen, in the process throwing out all their precious principles momentarily, spitting in the face of everything that made Linux possible.
Real free software followers choose freedom over Shiny Objects.
"Oppression and harassment is a small price to pay to live in the land of the free." -- Montgomery Burns.