[Discuss] bluetooth

Jerry Feldman gaf.linux at gmail.com
Sun Mar 21 10:07:19 EDT 2021


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 <eric.chadbourne at icloud.com>
wrote:

>
> > On Mar 18, 2021, at 12:16 AM, Matthew Gillen <me at mattgillen.net> 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
>
>
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