On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 12:22:41 +0800, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 17:32:41 -0500, > > Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Nvidia and ATI's drivers aren't included in the box. They could be. > > > > Except that they will be broken by kernel updates and there is no way > > to force nVidia to produce updated drivers. I seem to remember that > > being a significant part of a big discussion about whether or not to delay > > an xorg update because of a lack of binary drivers. (Ultimately the > > update was delayed due to other considerations.) > > Except there are methods that, upon booting into a new kernel, will rebuild > the drivers as part of the boot process. Thus, making it a trivial task. That depends on what changed. Some changes are going to break the drivers in way that can't be fixed like that. In fact it is a virtual certainty if you continue to run the hardware long enough while continuing to update the kernels (and xorg).
