NVIDIA driver *taints* kernel???
Sam Varshavchik
mrsam at courier-mta.com
Thu Jan 20 23:47:09 UTC 2005
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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