nvidia driver breaks with pretty much every F8 update

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Thu Apr 3 22:55:41 UTC 2008


On Thursday 03 April 2008, Axel Thimm wrote:
>On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 10:40:29AM -0600, Robin Laing wrote:
>The drivers break every few kernel upgrades, whether it's dkms or kmdl
>doesn't matter. So you need to go back to the vendor and ask for a new
>copy of the packages anyway.

And their (Zanders) reply is that they don't support 
developmental/experimental kernels.

>And with kmdls you don't have to expose your system by installing
>compilers and a whole development suite just for creating dkms built
>modules.
>
>But dkms does have it's benefits, which is why kmdl2 [1] has dkmdls :)
>
>[1] Soon at an ATrpms mirror near you.

Thanks Axel, but ATM its moot, there's an ATI card in here now.

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