nvidia driver breaks with pretty much every F8 update

[Alan]

> On Thursday 03 April 2008, Alan wrote:
>>> On Thursday 03 April 2008, Waleed Harbi wrote:
>>>>Try download nvidia driver from Nvidia web site, then download the
>>>>kernel-dev rpm via yum after that start the installation in level 3.
>>>>Nvidia they have driver for linux, and it is working fine with me.
>>>>
>>>>On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 8:31 PM, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net>
>>>
>>> The kernels video API was changed withn the first 2.6.25 release
>>> candidate,
>>> and the driver available in the .12.run package will not build on
>>> 2.6.25-x
>>> kernels, unless they have released a new driver in the last 24 hours or
>>> so.
>>> I gave up, there is now an ati based 2400HD in this system.  But I
>>> can't
>>> watch tv with tvtime now, that overlay interface is missing from the
>>> radeonhd
>>> driver.
>>
>>Check the nVIDIA forums.  There is a patch for this problem available for
>>download.
>
> Yes, and I have it, but it fails to apply.  The patch instructs are a bit
> obtuse to me.  I've watched the errors because they can't code worth a
> damn
> go by even when it says the build is good, been doing it for a couple of
> years.  Strange things have happened in that 2 years too, such as getting
> LSN0 wiped clean at least once.  Screw it, I need something more stable
> than
> NVIDIA's own drivers have proven to be.

I wish I could test it.  My laptop is trying to resemble a nuclear reactor
at the moment.  (Overheats on boot.)  I hope to order a new one tomorrow,
but it will be a few weeks before I get the new one.

Maybe on the home system...  I will check what kernel I am using there.

>>> As a tv engineer, that sucks, so I'm damned either way.
>>
>>As a tv engineer, you are damned no matter what.
>
> Chuckle.  Either that, or if you are good at it, you get accused of
> walking on
> water, which I have been occasionally.  Even though I've been given the
> rolex
> and retired into a transmitter maintenance role for 4 years now, the phone
> still rings when the SHTF.

In my job if you are good at it you are more likely accused of having a
pact with satan before being accused of walking on water.