NVIDIA driver *taints* kernel???

[Guy Fraser]

On Thu, 2005-20-01 at 21:11 -0500, Steven Pasternak wrote:
> 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.
It is not so much nVidia's stupid licence ans it is the policy of RH 
from what I recall.