Fedora Core 6 HUGE problem

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 12:22:41 +0800,
  Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
> Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> > On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 17:32:41 -0500,
> >   Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Nvidia and ATI's drivers aren't included in the box.  They could be.
> > 
> > Except that they will be broken by kernel updates and there is no way
> > to force nVidia to produce updated drivers. I seem to remember that
> > being a significant part of a big discussion about whether or not to delay
> > an xorg update because of a lack of binary drivers. (Ultimately the
> > update was delayed due to other considerations.)
> 
> Except there are methods that, upon booting into a new kernel, will rebuild
> the drivers as part of the boot process.  Thus, making it a trivial task.

That depends on what changed. Some changes are going to break the drivers
in way that can't be fixed like that. In fact it is a virtual certainty
if you continue to run the hardware long enough while continuing to update
the kernels (and xorg).