NVIDIA driver *taints* kernel???
Paul
subsolar at subsolar.org
Wed Jan 19 05:18:48 UTC 2005
On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 22:12 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Jonathan Berry writes:
>
> > On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 21:37:42 -0500, Sam Varshavchik
> > <mrsam at courier-mta.com> wrote:
> >> Michael Cobb writes:
> >> > Steven,
> >> >
> >> > I have the same problem on a Opteron based FC-2 box with an Nvidia FX-500
> >> > card. I set runlevel 3, execute startx, and look at a blank screen. I have
> >> > been working on this problem for 2 weeks. So far no love from fedora!
> >>
> >> Good luck getting NVidia working on an Opteron. Their closed source driver
> >> is 32-bit only. It won't be easy to shoehorn it into a 64bit kernel. Even
> >> if it's possible at all.
> >
> > Whoa! This is false. I have an Athlon 64 and nVidia's drivers work
> > just fine. Please get your facts right before posting.
>
> The only Fedora 64bit kernel I'm aware of is the Opteron kernel. There is no
> athlon64-specific kernel either in the i386 Fedora build, or the x86_64
> Fedora build.
Well there is no difference between an Opteron and a Athlon 64 besides
some cache and the two additional hyper-transport links that most
motherboards don't make use of.
x86-64 = Opteron & Athlon 64
I keep hearing FUD.
Yes I would like to see good open-source drivers, but because of some of
the patents involved it's not gonna happen (in the USA anyways).
Paul
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