On 11/9/06, Kim Lux <lux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 13:24 -0500, Todd Zullinger 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 ! > > Yeah, those bastards. Giving you a driver for $0 and forcing you to > use it. Round up a posse to tar and feather them. Can you imagine if we had to build drivers in this manner for EVERY piece of hardware on our computers ? Should we be applauding Nvidia for their approach to Linux OS support ? I think not ! I'd love to know how an admin with 200 PCs with nvidia cards would handle this.
Many do, without any of the self-inflicted trauma that you're reporting. They either run an enterprise Linux distro (RHEL, SLED, etc), where the kernels change very infrequently, they're using custom kernels which they control, or their users are intelligent enough to know how to upgrade the nvidia driver. You choose to use a quasi-bleeding edge distro, and then are horrified by the requirements that come along with running such a distro. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman netllama@xxxxxxxxx LlamaLand http://netllama.linux-sxs.org
