On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 10:08:48AM -0700, Kim Lux wrote: > > I'd like to thank Nvidia for wasting another hour of my life this > morning ! I am pretty sure that if it wasn't for Nvidia and their > stupid, idiotic driver system that I could have saved enough time in the > last 2 years to go on a week's vacation ! [tedious rant elided] Everything in this pissy rant sounds like PEBKAC to to me. > Yesterday I absentmindedly ran "yum update". Stupid me, I didn't watch > it and apparently a new kernel got installed (2835). Why is this NVIDIA's fault? > No problem I think, I'll just reboot with 2798 and get to work. So I do > reboot, but something is messed up with X, startx gives me a bunch of > errors. The Nvidia driver is broken for 2798 too. > > So, I decide to rebuild the driver for kernel 2798. After all, I built > the Nvidia driver for 2798 only a couple weeks ago. > > So I cd to my Nvidia installer directory, which one HAS to have if one > is running an Nvidia card ! I do the ./NIDIA*8776.run thing and, of > course the driver won't build ! What else is new ! Then I remember > that I had to give it a kernel path last time. So it takes me 10 > minutes to figure out that. > > The driver still won't build ! Complaining about the stupid config.h > problem again ! I go into the source and put in a dummy config.h file > and it still won't build. UGGGHHH (At his point I need to point out > the total stupidity of a Linux user needing to edit source code to get a > driver to build let alone RUN !) Take it up with the kernel developers. They're the ones who changed config.h to autoconf.h. One might fault RH or FC for schlepping around config.h for so long after it went away in the kernel sources. Doubtless, you would have bitched about that, too, and tried to blame *that* on NVIDIA as well. > So, then I decide that I am being silly trying to build the driver in > the first place as I've heard great things about livna and they have a > driver prebuilt. So I do a "yum install nvidia" and "yum install > module-nvidia" of course if fails. I've got the wrong package name. So > I shut down Linux and boot XP and go searching on the web to find that > the package name is "kmod-nvidia". BTW: I consider it a complete > failure that I have to boot Windows to get my Linux box running ! Then the failure is yours because you don't know how to find information without using a GUI. How is this NVIDIA's problem? They don't package the Livna drivers. > BTW: google doesn't work with lynx, nor does surfing some helpful > websites. And why is this NIVIDIA's fault? I'll stop. You're just an asshat. If you despise NVIDIA so, go buy a different card. Kurt -- "Absolutely nothing should be concluded from these figures except that no conclusion can be drawn from them." (By Joseph L. Brothers, Linux/PowerPC Project)
