nVidia vs. ATI graphics card for fedora

Robin Laing Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Wed Apr 29 15:36:08 UTC 2009


Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Tom Horsley wrote:
>> Especially if you install the akmod packages, so it can build the module
>> from source if the updated binary isn't yet in the repo mirror.
> 
> Which is a horribly ugly "solution". Fedora is not Gentoo.
> 
> If you use standard prebuilt kmods, you still need to be careful with kernel
> upgrades.
> 
>         Kevin Kofler
> 

But AKMOD is a great way of getting the latest security updates into the 
system without waiting for a module to be produced.  I like the idea of 
dkms akmod as it can make life easier.


-- 
Robin Laing




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