F15 update: no more nvidia

[Reindl Harald]

Am 13.02.2012 03:58, schrieb Bruce Korb:
> On 02/12/12 15:28, Reindl Harald wrote:
>>
>>
>> Am 13.02.2012 00:21, schrieb Bruce Korb:
>>> On 02/12/12 14:17, jonetsu wrote:
>>>>
>>>> How to get back high resolution and
>>>
>>> Go to the nvidia driver download page:  http://bit.ly/AbjlHC
>>> You'll have to have the linux source RPM installed and rebuild it.
>>> The "open source" driver has now progressed to where it almost
>>> works, but I don't find "almost" to be good enough for prime time.
>>
>> why recommending the BLOB from nvidia-homepage WITHOUT BIG WARNING
>> that EVERYTIME after kernel-updates GUI will be broken?
> 
> Because, more-or-less, my GUI gets broken everytime the kernel
> gets updated anyway.  I think if you have one monitor and an older
> nVidia card, you may be okay with that nouveau horse dung.

not sooo long ago nouveau worked perfectly
however, do not buy nVidia at all
Corei7 SandyBridge needs no BLOB at all

> Otherwise, you've got nothing but problems.  Frankly, it is easier
> to go through a longer sequence of well-trodden paths than it is
> to diagnose the situation when nouveau decides to give you
> reduced resolution on only one monitor.  That's why

and why do you not recommend the akmod-nvidia to get
updated drivers after kernel updates and mostly if
no bianry yet vuilt automatic rebuilt kernel modules?




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