Re: NVIDIA driver *taints* kernel???

From: Steven Pasternak (stevenp500_at_bellsouth.net)
Date: 01/21/05

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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 21:11:33 -0500

    On Thursday 20 January 2005 18:47, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
    > Guy Fraser writes:
    > > On Tue, 2005-18-01 at 21:34 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
    > >> Otherwise, the results will be what you have now. Although on this
    > >> occasion you might be lucky enough to find someone to give you a
    > >> workaround, sooner or later you'll be boned. Unless, of course, you use
    > >> precisely the kernel version and build that received the official stamp
    > >> of approval from NVidia.
    > >
    > > Male bovine feces!
    > >
    > > nVidia does a good job of providing multidisplay and 3D drivers
    > > that work.
    >
    > Then I must've imagined all the reports to LKML of various kernel errors
    > caused by NVidia's closed code.
    >
    > > I have had trouble in the past, but within a short period of time
    > > the binary drivers were fixed, and all was well again.
    >
    > I really don't like having trouble in this area. Not even for a short
    > period of time. I'd like to be able to install Fedora, and have everything
    > working out of the box. I don't want to mess around with downloading
    > drivers and trying to shoehorn them in, somehow.
    So would everyone else. NVIDIA's STUPID license makes you download the driver
    because you can't ship it with a distro or something like that. Xandros OS
    somehow got around that, but that is the only one that I know of that does. 

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