NVIDIA driver *taints* kernel???

[Paul]

On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 00:20 -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> Sam Varshavchik 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.
> >
> > There are many graphics cards with reliable, open source, native x.org 
> > drivers.  I suggest that you pick one, and support the vendors that 
> > support open source.
> 
> Out of curiousity, such as?

If you need accelerated 3D ... a few Radeon R1x0 & R200 based cards, ATI
Rage 128, Some Intel Integrated Graphics and a few others.

Check here http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Status

Paul