On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 07:58:29 -0500, Jeff Vian wrote: > On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 08:51 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 12:11 +0800, Deepak Shrestha wrote: > > > Instead of updating driver from livna, this time I tried the > manual > > > installation of driver as instructed in nvidia forum > > > http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=72490 > > > its working fine now. > > > > You should probably take a look at this URL: > > > > http://www.city-fan.org/tips/ProprietaryVideoDriverWarning > > > > That is old news. > > There seems to be no date on that, but it seems I remember it from > possibly as much as 6 months ago. I am not sure if the problems he > described there continue to exist in new installs from nvidia since I > have not installed that driver direct from nvidia on my FC5 system. I > believe there have been 2 updated releases of the nvidia driver since > his post of that. > > He says that when using the driver from livna the problems noted are > fixed so most won't have a problem. I personally never saw the > problems he notes even when I used the driver directly from nvidia. https://bugzilla.livna.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1069 status: RESOLVED resolution: WONTFIX Why? proprietary. passing up the pipeline? too much work. Thorsten's follow up commentary was additionally enlightening.
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