Nvidia sucks, sucks, sucks !

Kurt Wall kwall at kurtwerks.com
Thu Nov 9 18:54:16 UTC 2006


On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 10:52:21AM -0700, Kim Lux wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 17:36 +0000, Mike Cohler wrote:
> > This is a puzzle to me - after all as far as I know kernel 2835 is
> > still in
> > updates-testing and not released into updates yet (as of 1 minute ago
> > at least
> > when I checked the main Fedora repo site!)
> > 
> > Hence it might be that you have updates-testing enabled when you ought
> > not to? 
> 
> Yes, this kernel is from updates-testing.  I don't see how that changes
> anything.  Before anyone tells me that livna can't be expect to provide
> modules for kernels in testing, please re read my post and note that I
> tried to install kmod-nvidia from livna for 2798, not the new kernel
> (2835).   2798 was the stock box kernel for the fc6 upgrade.

testing != stable

"Testing" means "it might steal your boyfriend, take your lunch money, 
start global thermonuclear war, or make daemons fly out of your nose."
If you run unstable software and it breaks, you get to keep both pieces.

Kurt
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