Still no kmod for new nvidia

[Ankur Sinha]

On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 06:28 -0400, David wrote:

> Windows "Driver hell"?
> 
> The basic hardware drivers usually come with Windows. Fedora provides
> basic, some quite advanced actually, hardware drivers for many pieces of
> hardware.
> 
> The 'better' Windows hardware drivers come with the hardware on CDs. The
> Linux hardware drivers usually do not. Usually because there are none.
> 
> Newer hardware drivers for Windows can be downloaded from the hardware
> manufacturer. Again there seldom are Linux drivers provided by the
> hardware manufacturers.
> 
> This thread is about Nvidia drivers for Linux.
> 
> If you buy an Nvidia video card and install it into a box that is
> running a Windows OS and then boot it it works. You insert the CD that
> came with the card and install the 'better' driver and reboot it works.
> If you go to the Nvidia site and identify your card you can download the
> latest drivers and install them.
> 
> To do this for Fedora, Linux in general, requires *you* to actually do
> some of the work by compiling the drivers from the code provided by
> Nvidia. Why do *you* have to do the work. Becasue Fedora can not legally
> do it for you. The how come RPMfusion can provide them? Ask them.
> 
> Again - Windows "Driver hell"? I don't know of any. Examples please.
> 
> 

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http://rpmfusion.org/FoundingPrinciples

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