Kim Lux <lux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Which is why I use the prebuilt packages in Livna. I haven't touched the > > original nVidia driver package in years, and it has been a breeze. > > Well, livna went off line a while ago, no ? Livna is online now at least. It could have been a very temporary network problem, possibly a local problem with your ISP or its MAN (Metropolitan Area Network). > So can we always trust someone else to build us a driver ? I suggest you postpone such worries until nobody builds us a driver. > Secondly, if you read my post, yum install kmod-nvidia didn't work and > lots of other people had trouble with it too. Could it possibly have been caused by your prior messing with the non-rpm nVidia package? I think so. > Well, does livna have a module for kernel 2835 ? Nope. So I needed to > do a manual installation. No, AFAIK Livna does not have driver packages for development kernels. > Now if nvidia would release their code to the kernel developers it could > get built like ever other kernel module. The ideal would certainly be to have nVidia release their drivers as open source and having them integrated into the kernel. Unfortunately, I don't see that happening soon. > Can you imaging what Linux hardware support would be like if we had to do > this for every piece of hardware on a PC ? It would be extremely bad, but happily that isn't the case. Regards Ingemar
