On 6/23/07, Chris Jones <jonesc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I guess I don't understand why that's preferably behavior. If you > don't have the nvidia driver installed at boot time, then you're going > to end up with poor performance regardless. And I've seen many > reports of people who ended up with their system falling back to the > 'nv' driver, they were unaware of it, and complained about poor > performance. So the sword cuts both ways. Its only good if you > understand what's happening, and in that case, wouldn't it be better > to just install the nvidia driver? Well, in my opinion Its preferable in the case when a new kernel (or X release) comes out that isn't supported by nvidia at that time. This has happen before. In this case it is a choice between booting into a system where X is borked, or X is working abeit without 3D. I know which I would prefer.
I'm not aware of any cases where the nvidia driver didn't work with a released Fedora kernel (other than the original FC6 kernel which didn't support non-GPL'd modules). Perhaps you're referring to Livna lacking the package, but that's a Livna problem.
