nvidia vs kmod-nvidia
Mauriat Miranda
mirandam at gmail.com
Mon Dec 11 02:26:28 UTC 2006
On 12/10/06, Hadders <fedora at workingwithit.com> wrote:
> I'm just wondering why the Linux group prefers the livna kmod-nvidia
> driver for Linux over nVidias downloadable driver?
>
> Is it because linva offers kernel specific versions? with smp?
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2006-February/msg01565.html
QUOTING Mike A. Harris,
Systems Engineer, X11 Development team, Red Hat Canada
Conclusions:
If you are going to use any 3rd party proprietary drivers, please do
yourself and everyone else a huge favour, and at least get your
drivers from reputable 3rd party rpm package repositories such as
livna.org which packages both the nvidia and ati proprietary drivers
in rpm packages which install the drivers sanely without overwriting
Red Hat/Fedora supplied files. These 3rd party packages install
the files in alternative locations, and configure the X server et al.
appropriately so that everything works. Since they do not blow
away OS supplied files, you can use the OS supplied drivers still
by reconfiguring xorg.conf. Also, if you decide to uninstall the
3rd party drivers via rpm, they just go away and cause no further
harm to the system. So PLEASE USE THIRD PARTY RPM PACKAGES if you
_must_ use 3rd party drivers. It helps create world peace.
/ENDQUOTE
To summarize: it is generally good practice to install RPM packaged
software when using RPM based linux distributions.
If you did more research on your own you would find there are other
advantages including speed of install, smaller download sizes, easier
upgrading, etc.
-Mauriat
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