[BozemanLUG] Regarding Fedora 23 and nVidia proprietary drivers?

[david]

Nvidia is yet to release a driver that is compatible with the new 
version of xorg that Fedora 23 ships with.  It's supposed to come out 
pretty soon (any day to six months).  It's not just the extreme 3D games 
that have troubles.  Many games fail to start because the open source 
driver is still in infancy and has not implemented many commonly used 
opengl functions.  They made a decision to not fall back to software on 
these functions so that there would be motivation out there to get them 
working with the hardware.  The problem is partly that the proprietary 
drivers are good and nobody really cares until some distro jumps the gun 
like this.  Perhaps the open source drivers will get some love because 
of it.

My kids are not too happy that almost the only games they can play right 
now are flash games in the browser.  I told them there is more to life 
than ... ect. ... and hopefully drivers will be out soon.

I will probably have to use the nvidia script to install, as when the 
drivers come out they will only package them for the current kernel, 
which crashes on the kids' dell box.  We'll see.

I won't be upgrading my box until the drivers are out.

David.

On 2015-11-18 10:41 pm, Lou Caudell wrote:
> I had nvidia issues a couple of Mint versions ago. Only the direct
> nvidia download worked well. Built in, or open source drivers did not
> play well and versions were not documented. It was hit or miss as to
> whether the code version would work with the OS, X, or Gnome. Getting
> rid of them was hell. Of course Mint didn't like the fact that it was
> a proprietary driver. Mint 17 seems to work well out of the box, but
> I'm no serious gamer either.
> 
> - Lou
> 
> On 11/13/2015 11:32 AM, david wrote:
>> I removed the nvidia driver and the system seems stable and working.
>> We'll see after school if any of the games the kids play still work.
>> 
>> Hopefully they port the drivers soon.  We really need the open source
>> driver to get the features the games use (or the games written to not
>> need the extra features).
>> 
>> 
>> David.
>> 
>> On 2015-11-13 8:58 am, Scott Dowdle wrote:
>>> Greetings,
>>> 
>>> Everyone at the meeting last night saw us upgrade David's son's
>>> computer from Fedora 22 to Fedora 23.  Took a while.  I just noticed
>>> this at the top of the Fedora Planet website... a posting claiming
>>> that the version of xorg using in Fedora 23 is too new for nVidia:
>>> 
>>> http://dennis-blog.appelon.net/?p=498
>>> 
>>> David please let us know if that is accurate or overstating it.
>>> 
>>> TYL,
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