nvidia vs kmod-nvidia

[spmirowski]

>
> 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
>
>   
Ya, I did forget the old system.  Makes the new unified version seem all 
that much
better.  Funny, Livna brings the system back to two files =)

Stephen