nvidia vs kmod-nvidia

[Hadders]

Mauriat Miranda wrote:
> On 12/10/06, spmirowski <spmirowski at shaw.ca> wrote:
>
>> It would be silly to expect a nVidia to support a few distros
>> specifically with
>> packages.  To support FC, they would need to build at least two version
>> (5 and 6)
>> then 586, or 686 kernels, plus SMP, etc.  Now add a couple more popular
>> distros
>> and you have what 10 - 20 builds per driver version?  What about the
>> near most
>> popular distros.  They will whine and cry foul.
>
> I guess you never used or do not remember how quirky the installation
> process was before Nvidia created the unified installer that they use
> now.
>
> They *DID* create "10-20 builds per driver version" - MORE. In fact
> there were 2 rpms to install. I used this between RH7.2 till RH9(?) I
> think.
>
> http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_1.0-2313.html
>
>> Now, if you can convince the Linux community to stop forking and making
>> a new
>> distro for every little difference, then amalgamate the remaining 2000
>> or so
>> distros into 3, then I might have a change of heart on that topic.
>
> Ultimately it does not depend on the exact distribution. The primary
> issues are the kernel version and X-server version.
>
> -Mauriat
>
Please, I tried to block that.  I do remember the two RPM thing, vageuly ;-)
Anyway, back then I didn't worry about it to much, most of what I did 
worked fine with the stock driver and my res was a miserable 1024x768.  
I just got on with what I was doing and lived without.

Now of course, I'd like some acceleration, given that I'm running VMWare 
workstation too!