It is not a problem. It will work. But do not bother to make any bug
reports with a tainted kernel (one which has non-GPL code in it) to
the Linux Kernel folks, particularly if it involves video.
Have the Fedora people descended so far that the group has forgotten
this little tidbit? The Nvidia driver is not open source. It is a code
module that the kernel folks cannot trouble shoot. The kernel is, thus,
tainted. It's no longer "pure".
{^_^}
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Cobb" <mcobb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Steven,
>
> I have the same problem on a Opteron based FC-2 box with an Nvidia FX-500
> card. I set runlevel 3, execute startx, and look at a blank screen. I have
> been working on this problem for 2 weeks. So far no love from fedora!
>
> Mike
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> On Behalf Of Steven Pasternak
> I use fedora 3 on an athlon xp and an nvidia geforce fx 5200. I go to
> install
> the Nvidia driver version 1.0-6629 and during the installation at the end
it
>
> says that the license 'Nvidia' taints the kernel, but it still continues
and
>
> seems to work. If I boot in runlevel 5, though, it gets to the part where
it
>
> starts X (right at the beginning) and X doesn't start - It freezes. I
> uninstall the driver and use the 'nv' driver and it works. I have to
compile
>
> the kernel module because it can't find one at the nvidia site. When I'm
in
> runlevel 3 I can run the accelerated graphics until I shut down, then I
have
>
> to boot runlevel 3 and recompile the module again. Any advise?
> -Steven
