Kernel 2054 breaks nvidia.ko loading

Ivan Gyurdiev ivg2 at cornell.edu
Thu Mar 16 19:00:53 UTC 2006


>>
>> This is beyond *bad*.
>> This effectively kills each and every non-GPL kernel module out there.
>
> Sounds like an awesome feature to me.  Perhaps we should add a new
> bugzilla resolution "CLOSED->IS_FEATURE" for things like this.  ;o)
What is the status of this bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=182396
Furthermore, why doesn't a blocker bug actually "block" anything?

Maybe it's a configuration issue... I don't know.
It doesn't help that no comments have been posted since I attached the 
required data.

My point is - for me it is definitely *not* a feature that FC5 will be 
unusable out of the box. Arjan's assurance that it's "just a matter of 
time before it is broken again" sounds very disturbing to me. Fedora 
should be aiming to provide the opposite assurance - "things will work 
most of the time". I fail to see why it's a good thing when 3D drivers 
have been broken for a large percent of the Linux user base.




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