NVIDIA driver *taints* kernel???

Steven Pasternak stevenp500 at bellsouth.net
Fri Jan 21 02:11:33 UTC 2005


On Thursday 20 January 2005 18:47, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> 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.
So would everyone else. NVIDIA's STUPID license makes you download the driver 
because you can't ship it with a distro or something like that. Xandros OS 
somehow got around that, but that is the only one that I know of that does.




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