The meeting was recorded. JABR will post the video as soon as he has had time to edit it.
On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 11:48 AM Eric Chadbourne <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mar 18, 2021, at 12:16 AM, Matthew Gillen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 3/11/2021 5:44 PM, Eric Chadbourne wrote: > >> I left fedora around 5 when they purposely broke proprietary video > >> drivers. Are they more stable now? > > > > I would characterize the situation a little differently; the distro had > > rules about mainline, and for kernel modules that couldn't be in > > mainline (I would lay the blame here on hardware manufactures rather > > than the distro) there were not great solutions. > > > > If you're referring specifically to nvidia, I don't use my laptop with > > an nvidia card for much these days except zoom/jitsi/teams, but I've > > been very happy with the nouveau driver in the last couple fedora > > releases and just ignoring the mess of trying to keep up with nvidia's > > broken process for linux driver management (e.g. remembering which magic > > three digit number corresponded to the proper legacy driver for my > > hardware after they stopped supporting my card with new releases) and > > figuring out whether I need to use Xorg or wayland or whatever. That > > box has a pretty old nvidia card though, YMMV. > > > > Matt > > _ > > That's good to hear. > > I took notes during the very informative BLU meeting. Inspiration to > catch up on RedHat's offerings. > > Thanks, > > Eric C > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- -- Jerry Feldman <[email protected]> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 6F6BB6E7 Key fingerprint: 0EDC 2FF5 53A6 8EED 84D1 3050 5715 B88D 6F6B B6E7 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
