Re: Nvidia sucks, sucks, sucks !

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Today Kim Lux did spake thusly:

On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 17:26 +0000, Scott van Looy wrote:

Uhm. Why don't you just:
rpm -Uvh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm
yum install fedorakmod
yum install kmod-nvidia

Or is that a silly question?

Silly, me, for not knowing that off the top of my head this morning when
I couldn't google it.

Pretty much anything that's a driver is packaged as RPM somewhere by someone. If you can't be bothered to find out whether or not the distro you choose to use has these available drivers whilst they're working, then don't whinge when they break? :P

I already have livna installed as a repository. And, btw, if you read my
post, you will see that I did "yum kmod-nvidia".  First of all, that
FAILED for kernel 2798.

Works fine on all my nvidia GPU boxes

Secondly, livna doesn't have a module built for
2835,

It's usually a few hours to a couple of days later before they're available, I think I've only ever noticed the gap once

just like they didn't have a <working> module for 2798 when I
updated to fc6 !

They did. It just didn't have the shiny desktop effects stuff in. That was in the livna-devel repo

 Its not like I didn't try them, twice now !

Most of the rest of the people using their drivers aren't moaning about it here, either the rest of the Nvidia users are wrong or you are...take your pick? ;)

And is this the sort of stuff we expect joe average computer user to do,

Installing drivers for hardware? Yep.

because after all, Linux is ready for the <average> desktop !   So when
my mom, who doesn't even know what a command line is, boots and X
doesn't start, what do I do with her ?

This usually won't be the case. There's always a slight overlap, as I said, of usually one or two days, when the kernel module isn't available for that kernel, but fedorakmod makes sure that the RPMs stay in sync and it just works

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