nvidia vs kmod-nvidia

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 12/10/06, spmirowski <spmirowski at shaw.ca> wrote:
> >
> > From: "Mauriat Miranda" <mirandam at gmail.com>
> >
> >
> >> >    I'm just wondering why the Linux group prefers the livna kmod-nvidia
> >> > driver for Linux over nVidias downloadable driver?
> >> >
> >> > Is it because linva offers kernel specific versions? with smp?
> >>
> >
> > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2006-February/msg01565.html
> >
> > QUOTING Mike A. Harris,
> > Systems Engineer, X11 Development team, Red Hat Canada
> >
> > Conclusions:
> > If you are going to use any 3rd party proprietary drivers, please do
> > yourself and everyone else a huge favour, and at least get your
> > drivers from reputable 3rd party rpm package repositories such as
> > livna.org which packages both the nvidia and ati proprietary drivers
> > in rpm packages which install the drivers sanely without overwriting
> > Red Hat/Fedora supplied files.  These 3rd party packages install
> > the files in alternative locations, and configure the X server et al.
> > appropriately so that everything works.  Since they do not blow
> > away OS supplied files, you can use the OS supplied drivers still
> > by reconfiguring xorg.conf.
> >
> > -Mauriat
>
> The real solution would be something of an LSB for file locations. If
> all distros would come up with an united schema for file locations and
> such, this would be less of a problem.

I'm pretty sure you just described what the the LSB is

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