[Discuss] bluetooth

John Abreau abreauj at gmail.com
Mon Mar 22 21:35:49 EDT 2021


The video has been posted.


On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 10:08 AM Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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