On 10/25/06, Kim Lux <lux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 18:50 +0200, Denis Leroy wrote: > Well you could also wait a few days for the dust to settle, then > udpate > to FC-6 and use the drivers provided by the friendly Livna people... > a) we shouldn't be dependent on a non profit repository to generate drivers for a video card
You're not. Many others managed to figure out what was needed simply by going to nvnews and reading the thread.
b) nobody warned me there was a driver problem. It wasn't in the release notes, for example
Because the release notes pre-dated the kernel you're using.
c) I've built drivers for my nvidia card before without problems, so why shouldn't it work this time d) I've had way, way too many problems building nvidia drivers. Every time one changes kernels one is building a new driver. Always trying to find the right version of the driver to match the new kernel. Very stupid.
I don't know what your kernel & driver version history is, but unless you've have incredibly bad luck, this degree fo frustration is far from the norm. And your (c) seems to contradict your (d) so I think you're just exagerating the scope of the problem.
I got it to work, remember. Its just such a stupid, unnecessary pain !
By using a relatively 'bleeding edge' distro you've chosen to accept some risk & pain. If you don't want the pain, then use a more stable distro such as RHEL, where the kernel rarely changes for the life of the product. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman netllama@xxxxxxxxx LlamaLand http://netllama.linux-sxs.org
