kmod-nvidia not working in kernel-2.6.17-1.2139_FC5

[Paul Howarth]

Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> On 7/5/06, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 12:11 +0800, Deepak Shrestha wrote:
>> > Instead of updating driver from livna, this time I tried the manual
>> > installation of driver as instructed in nvidia forum
>> > http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=72490
>> > its working fine now.
>>
>> You should probably take a look at this URL:
>>
>> http://www.city-fan.org/tips/ProprietaryVideoDriverWarning
> 
> That 'warning' is just Mike Harris' FUD campaign against binary drivers.

It's (mostly) not FUD at all. The nvidia installer does (or at least 
did) replace system libraries, thus resulting in discrepancies between 
the RPM database and what's installed on the system.

Mike also suggests that people use those very same binary drivers in a 
properly-packaged format that doesn't trample over system libraries. In 
other words, it's mainly the installer he's warning about rather the 
drivers themselves.

Paul.