Robin Laing wrote:
Michael A. Peters wrote:
On some forum today, a claim was made that Ubuntu should be used if
you want to use nvidia drivers because Fedora is difficult to install
them in.
I have nothing against Ubuntu (except for their sudo defaults and
lack of a root passwd by default, but that's another discussion) but
that statement about fedora just wasn't true. So I detailed the four
or five lines it takes in a terminal to get the livna packaging
installed and configured, and the argument then was that it still was
too hard.
If some people really feel that way - well, I guess it could be made
easier.
I don't have a fedora box at the moment so I have only dry run tested
this script in CentOS - but perhaps someone running Fedora can fine
tune this and get it up onto a useful wiki?
I use Freshrpms for my nvidia drivers as it uses dkm. This makes life
so easy compared to Livna. I don't have to remove and re-install
(unless it is better now) the various modules. If there is a new
nvidia driver, it is created on the next reboot. I just see a message
about it.
I think the dynamic kernel modules is a much better way to go than
individual modules. Now I have a module that will be created and work
on a previous kernel if I need it.
My experience with livna kernel modules, the new module is pulled in
with the new kernel update.
Usually by the time the kernel update shows up in my yum update - livna
has already built the new module. Sometimes it takes a day, that's no
biggie.
I don't doubt the freshrpm packaging works just fine, I use livna for
other stuff so for me it just makes sense to use them for the kernel
module as well.
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