nVIDIA binary driver and FC5 test 1

[alan]

On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Matthew Miller wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 12:51:25PM -0800, alan wrote:
> > I figured that the testing list was the first place to ask since it is a 
> > new version of X that is fairly specific to FC5t1.
> 
> But Fedora people can't really help you, because they can't see what nVidia
> did that broke.

It is not what nVIDIA did that is the problem.  It is a change in the way 
driver modules are loaded in X.

Drivers used to be located in /usr/X11R6/lib64/modules/drivers.  They are 
now (as of FC5t1) in /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers.  nVIDIA's installer 
assumes the old location and puts the drivers there and not where X now 
wants them.

> > Then I remembered why most of my friends stopped using the Fedora mailing 
> > lists for answers.
> 
> Yeah, because you get straightforward answers back from one of the actual
> kernel developers. Man, that sucks.

No, because the answers were not helpful and usually abusive.

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