I know the rawhide kernels are more about testing and saying, "hey,
would this day-old feature be cool to eventually put into production",
but what's the philosophy on the FC2 kernel? Has it already been
decided that it will be an older version? I haven't tried all of the
new kernels, but neither the nvidia nor the savage X drivers have worked
on any kernel I have tried since 2.6.3-1.118. I know a lot of people
have said, "Blame NVIDIA. They don't come out with a new driver every
week to match the way our kernels are changing", but I don't think this
is a reasonable stance. The nvidia module is widely used, and I think
to say that FC2 doesn't support it may be a serious issue for some
people. I know most people don't care about the savage driver, but I
wonder if a new one will ever be released. I don't think its a good
idea at this time to include a default kernel that isn't backward
compatible in this respect to the older ones.
-Eric Hattemer
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