kmod-nvidia not working in kernel-2.6.17-1.2139_FC5

[Scott R. Godin]

On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 07:58:29 -0500, Jeff Vian wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 08:51 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 12:11 +0800, Deepak Shrestha wrote:
> > > Instead of updating driver from livna, this time I tried the
> manual
> > > installation of driver as instructed in nvidia forum
> > > http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=72490
> > > its working fine now.
> > 
> > You should probably take a look at this URL:
> > 
> > http://www.city-fan.org/tips/ProprietaryVideoDriverWarning
> > 
> 
> That is old news.  
> 
> There seems to be no date on that, but it seems I remember it from
> possibly as much as 6 months ago.  I am not sure if the problems he
> described there continue to exist in new installs from nvidia since I
> have not installed that driver direct from nvidia on my FC5 system. I
> believe there have been 2 updated releases of the nvidia driver since
> his post of that.  
> 
> He says that when using the driver from livna the problems noted are
> fixed so most won't have a problem.  I personally never saw the
> problems he notes even when I used the driver directly from nvidia. 

https://bugzilla.livna.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1069

status: RESOLVED
resolution: WONTFIX

Why? proprietary.
passing up the pipeline? too much work.

Thorsten's follow up commentary was additionally enlightening.

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