livna video drivers for idiots

[Robin Laing]

Michael A. Peters wrote:
> On some forum today, a claim was made that Ubuntu should be used if you 
> want to use nvidia drivers because Fedora is difficult to install them in.
> 
> I have nothing against Ubuntu (except for their sudo defaults and lack 
> of a root passwd by default, but that's another discussion) but that 
> statement about fedora just wasn't true. So I detailed the four or five 
> lines it takes  in a terminal to get the livna packaging installed and 
> configured, and the argument then was that it still was too hard.
> 
> If some people really feel that way - well, I guess it could be made 
> easier.
> I don't have a fedora box at the moment so I have only dry run tested 
> this script in CentOS - but perhaps someone running Fedora can fine tune 
> this and get it up onto a useful wiki?
> 

I use Freshrpms for my nvidia drivers as it uses dkm.  This makes life 
so easy compared to Livna.  I don't have to remove and re-install 
(unless it is better now) the various modules.  If there is a new nvidia 
driver, it is created on the next reboot.  I just see a message about it.

I think the dynamic kernel modules is a much better way to go than 
individual modules.  Now I have a module that will be created and work 
on a previous kernel if I need it.

Just my 2cents worth.
-- 
Robin Laing