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<DIV> </DIV> <BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: Tony Nelson <tonynelson@georgeanelson.com><BR>To: fedora-list@redhat.com<BR>Sent: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 17:32:14 -0400<BR>Subject: Re: nvidia or ati ?<BR><BR>
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<DIV class=AOLPlainTextBody id=AOLMsgPart_0_8d0b2ea2-68d8-42fe-9c8f-5f57e3c0f150><PRE><TT>At 10:07 AM +0200 10/29/05, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>Am Freitag, den 28.10.2005, 14:22 -0400 schrieb Tony Nelson:
>> At 8:08 AM +0200 10/28/05, Mogens Kjaer wrote:
>> >Jeff Vian wrote:
>> >...
>> >> The kernel is installed, not updated.
>> >> It does not load the new kernel until a reboot occurs so if you watch
>> >> for the update in the yum.log then you can do the reboot and driver
>> >> update at your convenience.
>> >
>> >I can do that, you can do that.
>> >
>> >The "ordinary users" I have can't. :-(
>> >
>> >Some of them have dualboot machines, and therefore
>> >reboot regularly.
>> >
>> >Hm, I'll guess it would be easier to stick with the files
>> >from nvidia and make a script that is run during boot
>> >that builds and installs the kernel module, if necessary.
>>
>> Yes, and after your users have tested it a while, how about submitting it
>> as a RFE for the livna packages? It sounds useful.
>
>I have something like that already, but never finished it nor included
>it in the nvidia or ati livna packages. If people are interested in it
>and (most important!) help testing I'm going to work on this further.
I'm not using any such package now (don't do 3D games), but I do have an
(old) ATI card (Radeon 7000/VE) in my machine. As I'm willing to volunteer
the time of others, I suppose I could test an ATI package on my machine if
that would be useful. Let me know.
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