livna vs. nvidia

[Wong Kwok-hon]

On 4/20/06, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info> wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 20.04.2006, 16:40 +0930 schrieb Tim:
> > On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 12:40 +0800, Wong Kwok-hon wrote:
> > > As I tried yesterday, the Nvidia driver download from Nvidia 8756 putt
> > > into a path /usr/X11R6/lib which is wrong and X11 in Fedora Core 5 is
> > > renamed which is /usr/lib/xorg/modules and some path changed. So If u
> > > install the Nvidia driver from Nvidia site which is faster than livna
> > > but need to put it into right path by manual or making a symbolic link
> > > to it.
> >
> > Why would NVidia's be faster than Livna's?
>
> Maybe he meant "It is faster available" -- livna often needs two days
> (or sometimes even more) until new drivers are published in the repo.
> This could be improved if there would be more people helping maintain
> and testing the drivers. Maintaining them is a lot of work and the job
> is quite frustrating. That's why I'll soon step down as maintainer of
> the ati-fglrx and nvidia drivers in livna.
>
> BTW, updates ATI drivers are in the livna-testing, but they have a
> problem that needs to be fixed before they get into the ususal repo. See
> http://bugzilla.livna.org/show_bug.cgi?id=922
> Help appreciated
>
> BTW2: Update kernel modules for FC5 building currently -- they should be
> available soon.
>
> CU

Also I found a benefit of livna is the kernel module can upgrade for
further build number like 2054,2080 .