On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 12:43:29PM -0700, alan wrote: > >>Cool. The only problem I see is that the nVIDIA kernel driver is bjorken > >>with xorg 7.1. (And will be until they create a Linux driver for the 9xxx > >>series of drivers.) > >> > >>Are there x86_64 builds? > > > >Yes, but only for the FC6t1 kernel (2.6.16-1.2289_FC6). I saw that the > >build breaks for rawhide kernels, so I didn't make the nvidia builds > >public, yet. BTW the next ATrpms update will contain FC6 kmdls for rawhide kernels (and userland), too. The constraints you mention below are still valid, though. > The problem with the nVIDIA kernel module is not the kernel. It is that > the ABI for Xorg changed. The driver builds fine, but display is weird. > Font display is iffy. There is a way to get it working, but it involved > disabling render and abi. Yes, you need Option "RenderAccel" "0" > It is supposed to be fixed in the next revision of the nVIDIA driver, but > I have yet to get a timeline as to when that will be released. (And the > new driver will be needed to get alglx running.) I guess currently in FC6 scope one should avoid the nvidia closed source driver. Hopefully there will soon be a fix. But I have the impression that nvidia will probably wait until FC6 reaches closer to release to fix any other new issues creeping up until then. Let's see. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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