Fedora 13, Nvidia drivers, and RHEL

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Hello List,

Why do Nvidia binary drivers work on RHEL 5.5 but not with Fedora 13?  The 
binary driver is practically a drop-in replacement for existing drivers in 
RHEL.  However, in Fedora, there is all sorts of breakage, workarounds, 
and kmods.

Mailing lists (including this one) are littered with reports of "broken 
displays" or black screens.  Some of the online guides are flat-out 
embarassing.  (to get this driver, make a new initrd...edit grub...install 
kmod-nvidia...or akmod-nvidia...remove extra input lines in xorg.conf) 
All that just for 3d acceleration?!?!?

Is the binary breakage because Fedora is pushing nouveau and truly 
open-source video drivers?  Is there intentional breakage somewhere to 
discourage the use of binary drivers?  Or has Fedora evolved so much that 
new features are causing breakage?  It has to be asked given how well the 
binary drivers work with RHEL.

-RN