> Regarding the use of nVidia from livna, my limited experience (about a > year) has been that they are good at providing both the kernel and the > xorg modules and extensions. On my system I have > > kmod-nvidia-100.14.19-1.2.6.23.8_34.fc7.x86_64 > xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-100.14.19-3.lvn7.x86_64 > > The former has a Build Date of 6th December 2007, the latter 12th > October, so it seems livna keep up well. You mention legacy hardware. > My hardware is not too "legacy" so that may be what the difference is. > Or it may be that I don't do any 3D work, which may tickle the > problems you had. > > Anyway, apologies if I have misunderstood your reasons for not using a > pre-compiled rpm. For me they "just work". Part of it is "force of habit". I have been compiling the drivers like that for so long, for me it "just works". (But then again, I have also modified xorg.conf configs by hand as well, back when you had to.)
