Could/should the new nvidia driver be added to the release candidate live release ?

[Linuxguy123]

On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 14:30 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Linuxguy123 wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 13:38 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> >> Linuxguy123 wrote:
> >>> There has been a lot of discussion about how various KDE components
> >>> utilize special graphics routines/modes available on certain video cards
> >>> and that the drivers for certain cards have bugs in them that don't
> >>> allow said KDE components to run properly. 
> >>>
> >>> I am wondering if the release candidates shouldn't have the latest and
> >>> greatest nvidia drivers installed on them so that a) the KDE components
> >>> get tested as they were intended to run and b) the nvidia drivers get
> >>> tested too.
> >>>
> >>> Please discuss.
> 
> >> As I understand things, doing as you suggest would make it an 
> >> nvidia-only live image 
> 
> Talked it over with some #rpmfusion folks, and it seems that I was 
> wrong, and should be possible:
> 
> [13:57] <rdieter> If one wanted to make a live image/cd with, say, the 
> nvidia driver/kmods pre-installed, how well would that function for 
> folks with a !=nvidia video card?  (My guess, not all that well)
> 
> [13:58] <firewing1> rdieter: If you want to use the 
> rpmfusion-config-display betas, perfectly
> 
> [13:59] <rdieter> ok, neat.  I've been spinning test kde live images, 
> and had a request to include one with nvidia drivers, didn't know how 
> that would work
> 
> [14:01] <rdieter> firewing1: mind a little hand holding?  1.  Which pkgs 
> need to be included/installed?  2.  is there any post-precessing 
> involved (ie, I'm unfamiliar with rpmfusion-config-display), how does 
> that work?
> 
> [14:02] <firewing1> rdieter: Just install xorg-x11-drv-foo for whichever 
> drivers you'd like to use, and then you'll have to install 
> rpmfusion-config-display as well as the configuration files onto the Live CD
> 
> [14:02] <firewing1> the initscript will configure xorg.conf 
> appropriately, depending on the hardware
> 
> [14:02] <firewing1> in the bug 
> (https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171) I have sample 
> configs posted
> 
> [14:03] <firewing1> Essentially, rpmfusion-config-display looks in 
> /etc/rpmfusion-config-display.d for driver configurations, and depending 
> on the PCI ID of the installed hardware, will select a good driver
> 
> [14:03] <firewing1> Just a heads-up, I think I made a mistake in the 
> legacy nvidia ones though (wrong version= key)
> 
> [14:04] <firewing1> rdieter: One last thing - you might want to disable 
> plymouth if you plan on using the live cd on ATI hardware - loading 
> radeon before fglrx currently breaks it
> 
> [14:04] <rdieter> ok, I'll might just give it a whirl. thank you.

Excellent work, Rex.  Way to have an open mind and ask questions.

You spin it and I'll test it.  Let me know when its ready.

I'm dying to see how KDE4 is *supposed* to work on my laptop.

LG