On Tue, 15 Sep 2009, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Phil Schaffner > <Philip.R.Schaffner at nasa.gov> wrote: >> Ned Slider wrote on 09/14/2009 01:23 PM: > >>> There are (to my knowledge) the Nvidia binary installer, dkms driver >>> from rpmforge, kmdl package from ATrpms, and a kmod driver from elrepo. > >> I'd say present all the options known to be viable, but perhaps not >> without prejudice. ?Personally I'd recommend putting ElRepo at the top >> of the list, but then I haven't personally tested all the options. > > And the page would have to be updated depending on the status of each > repo. For instance, the kmod-nvidia package in ELRepo is currently in > the testing repo. This will be migrated to the regular place as soon > as it is proven flawless. When that happens and sometime in a future, > the dkms version *might* be deprecated as Dag is hinting at it: > > http://lists.rpmforge.net/pipermail/users/2009-September/002727.html The only reason for me to keep maintaining the dkms packages, would be for those people not running supported kernels (recent/official). But if we could describe and automate the building of kmod packages, I would prefer that route over dkms at any time. I didn't get any feedback yet, so I have no clue if anyone is interested/upset whatever action I will take :-) -- -- dag wieers, dag at wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]
