Build Nvidia driver for Fedora 9, AMD?

[Michael Hannon]

My interest in this situation is that we have many computers at the place where I work that have Nvidia cards.  This was not part of any grand plan -- it's just that Nvidia happened to be the vendors' card of choice when we bought the systems.  I don't think any of our Fedora systems actually came with Fedora on it.

If I understand correctly, security updates are available only for the two most-recent versions of Fedora.  In that case, Fedora 7 and earlier are no longer supported.  Is that correct?

We kickstart all of our Fedora systems so as to minimize the disruption of the rapid turnover of the software, but now we have to choose between securing the systems and having the systems fully functional for our end users.  Not a happy situation.

Is there any chance that xorg 1.5 (or whatever the non-beta version is) will be available as an update to Fedora 9 once it becomes available?

Thanks.

-- Mike

----- Original Message ----
From: Alan Cox <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 8:11:09 AM
Subject: Re: Build Nvidia driver for Fedora 9, AMD?

> I disagree with you on one key point. Nvidia works on Linux it is not
> distro specific. Using nvidia binary drivers was broken by Fedora not
> the other way around.

Not really. The kernel has no fixed module binary ABI, the X server
likewise. This causes a problem for Nvidia but at the end of the day
there is no reason for the rest of the world with open drivers to wait for
Nvidia to crawl along after them (if Nvidia actually then bothered to
catch up).

So no Fedora didn't break it. The kernel and X simply moved on and Fedora
uses current releases.

> Linux is all about choice and choosing the right tool for the job.

Yes (although in my book an nVidia card is not the tool for the job ;))

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