Am Montag, den 09.05.2005, 02:21 -0400 schrieb Charles Lesh: > Hey all: > > I've been happily using FC3 with binary nvidia drivers for a while. > > I've also been playing with rawhide, which is sweet, but a no go with > binary nvidia drivers. > > If I remember correctly, FC3 test releases and the initial release > itself could not handle the binary nvidia drivers due to changes in > the kernel. > > Without flames, and understanding how evil binary drivers are, should > I expect a significant delay and lots of screwing around between the > release of FC4 and the nvidia drivers working? (I like to call this > the nvidia dance.) > > I wish I didn't need the binary driver, but I have a laptop, and have > found no other way to drive a second monitor ('twinview"), which I > need to do when I give presentations. Sadly, this why windows is still > on one of my partitions. > > -cjl > Why is rawhide a no-go with the binary nvidia drivers? I use the binary drivers from the NV-homepage on a fully updated FC4test2 system and they work very well. OK, it is a little annoying to recompile the module after every kernel update, but this can be automated to a certain level. So what exactly does not work for you? Simon