nvidia or ati ?

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

Am Samstag, den 29.10.2005, 17:32 -0400 schrieb Tony Nelson:
> 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.

Won't be very useful because the ati-fglrx packages need a Radeon 8500
or above. 

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Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info>