Latest Fedora Core 3 status: kernel testing needed

[Nils Philippsen]

On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 12:50 +0200, jochen at herr-schmitt.de wrote:
> Elliot Lee <sopwith at redhat.com> schrieb am 20.10.2004, 23:45:57:
> 
> > Please rigorously test kernel 2.6.9-1.640 from the development tree
> > (http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/). 
> 
> Becouse this kernel has a issue by using the nvidia driver, I have put
> a bug request on livna.org, see:
> 
> http://bugzilla.livna.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289
> 
> to create a new RPM, which should contain a patch which allow to use the
> nvidia driver with 2.6.9 kernels until the release of the next official
> version of the nvidia driver should fix this bug.

Are you sure you haven't been bitten by
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=136478 instead? The
livna.org nvidia drivers run flawlessly< so far here (admittedly with
-1.639 and not -1.640 but AFAICS that shouldn't matter).

Nils
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