On 06/16/2010 08:02 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 19:52:49 -0400, > Marcel Rieux<m.z.rieux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Isn't RPMfusion preparing its upcoming module according to the kernel >> version that is in Testing? I would think that RPMfusion has a nice working >> module for kernel 2.6.32.10-92.fc12. Since Fedora decided instead to update >> with 2.6.32.14-127.fc12 without a warning ,they might decide to never >> provide the module for this kernel. >> > They have other ways to see what kernels are being built. They also should > notice that the testing version is older and that some sort of oops occured > and not waste their time making a kmod for it. > > >> If there was no way, Fedora should provide excuses. Or, if Fedora doesn't >> want to play the game with RPMfusion because NVIDIA drivers are not open >> source, they should say so and everybody will move to Nouveau. People using >> Fedora will know that NVIDIA drivers are not available. >> > Fedora pretty much does say people should use Nouveau. Some people need > more performance and using the RPMFusion versions to do that. However > doing that has trade offs. Using those drivers cause problems and people > hopefully are making intelligent decisions about whether or not that using > them is a good trade off. > > >> What is unacceptable is the present situation, where you can't get a shade >> of an explanation as to what happened. From a serious distro, this is >> totally unacceptable. >> > You continue to complain to the wrong people. RPMFusion supports the > rpms for the proprietary nVidia drivers and if you want anything to > change, you should be complaining to them, as they are the ones that > need to fix things. > > >> So, let me ask: why wasn't the kernel in testing released? If the one that >> has finally been offered was deemed better, why wasn't it put in testing >> before release? >> > I usually run kernels from the Koji builds so I don't know which kernels > were in testing and updates in what order. However if you want to be able > to make some guesses you might try reading the change logs in the kernel > spec file. (You can see them on koji without having to download the srpms.) > Without the Nvidia drivers there is no support for Cuda and shaders If you want to over clock your video card you are shit out of luck with nouveau I can understand Fedora developing the nouveau drivers but getting the full benefit out of a very fast Nvidia card is nil with nouveau. I sure hope the kmod is made and delivered by rpmfusion because without it I will not use the new kernel if I have to fall back to nouveau This is the first kernel update I have seen where there is no kmod for nvidia Here's to hoping -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
