Re: Yum update from Fedora 14 -> 15 WARNING! [OT]

Matthew Saltzman writes:

On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 22:04 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 05/30/2011 09:17 PM, Mark Eggers wrote:
> > I would be happy to be shown incorrect.
>
> Your understanding is, on the whole, correct. However, you can always
> use akmod-nvidia instead. If there's not a kmod for the current kernel,
> akmod builds it on the fly at boot. It's not a panacea by any means,
> but for most of us, it's much better than having to remember to
> re-install the binary blob every time there's a kernel update.
>

The real question is, is the nvidia blob still necessary? In F15, the
nouveau driver has 3D acceleration enabled by default. Performance
might not be all the way to the nvidia drivers, but GNOME Shell runs in
standard mode with the default nouveau driver. That should at least
tide you over until the nvidia packages catch up.

I don't use nvidia's blob, but nouveau's stability is still not consistent. Maybe about 10% of the time X locks up when I open gthumb. If I ssh in and kill X, Gnome will whine and go into fallback mode. I must reboot to regain hardware acceleration.

It's not a big deal to me, especially as compared to the rest of the issues with gnome 3, but I can see how some might prefer to stick with nvidia.

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