NVIDIA driver *taints* kernel???

[Sam Varshavchik]

Guy Fraser writes:

> On Tue, 2005-18-01 at 21:34 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>> Otherwise, the results will be what you have now.  Although on this occasion 
>> you might be lucky enough to find someone to give you a workaround, sooner 
>> or later you'll be boned.  Unless, of course, you use precisely the kernel 
>> version and build that received the official stamp of approval from NVidia.
> Male bovine feces!
> 
> nVidia does a good job of providing multidisplay and 3D drivers 
> that work.

Then I must've imagined all the reports to LKML of various kernel errors 
caused by NVidia's closed code.

> I have had trouble in the past, but within a short period of time 
> the binary drivers were fixed, and all was well again.

I really don't like having trouble in this area.  Not even for a short 
period of time.  I'd like to be able to install Fedora, and have everything 
working out of the box.  I don't want to mess around with downloading 
drivers and trying to shoehorn them in, somehow.


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