What's wrong with the kernel?
tfreeman at intel.digichem.net
tfreeman at intel.digichem.net
Mon Mar 27 19:48:58 UTC 2006
On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, sean wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 13:01:15 -0600
> "Paul Johnson" <pauljohn32 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I see on rpm.livna.org that there is a flaw in the FC5 kernel and that
> > we are waiting for an errata update before we can build modules like
> > the Nvidia video driver. But I don't see any official information
> > about this on fedora.redhat.com.
> >
> > Does anybody know the story?
>
> Last entry on:
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/FC5Common
While strictly speaking, that entry answers the question, IF I read it
correctly the details are a _little_ thin. Of course, the details I would
like to know probably don't belong in that particular document.
Specifically, my question would be "Why are the non-gpl'd kernel modules
not supported in the release kernels?" and "Is there a semi-simple
work-around available?"
Since my video cards are NVidea based, I'll wait until I can use the
non-gpl'd modules before investigating FC5 for my own use.
I suspect that such details may be found over on the developement list,
and I may get enough ambition to go look for myself. OTOH, if somebody has
a summary or a direct pointer, I sure would be obliged.
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