Build Nvidia driver for Fedora 9, AMD?

[Erich Zigler]

In this case Xorg has not yet "officially" moved on. When 1.5 is
released Nvidia will support it like it has the previous releases.
Fedora in an effort to be in this case too bleeding edge moved on with
Xorg even before it did. :)

Fedora moved on
Xorg and Nvidia have not. (Yet!)

- Erich



On 5/19/08, Alan Cox <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>> I disagree with you on one key point. Nvidia works on Linux it is not
>> distro specific. Using nvidia binary drivers was broken by Fedora not
>> the other way around.
>
> Not really. The kernel has no fixed module binary ABI, the X server
> likewise. This causes a problem for Nvidia but at the end of the day
> there is no reason for the rest of the world with open drivers to wait for
> Nvidia to crawl along after them (if Nvidia actually then bothered to
> catch up).
>
> So no Fedora didn't break it. The kernel and X simply moved on and Fedora
> uses current releases.
>
>> Linux is all about choice and choosing the right tool for the job.
>
> Yes (although in my book an nVidia card is not the tool for the job ;))
>
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