NVIDIA Question

Jesse Keating hosting at j2solutions.net
Fri Jul 25 16:24:03 UTC 2003


On Friday 25 July 2003 09:13, David St.Clair wrote:
> Why not download it during installation (so no "distribution") making
> it clear that it is a 3rd party driver and is not supported? That's
> what SUSE does.  That way the user gets to choose.  I could care less
> if it "taints" my kernel.  I just want a 3d driver that works.  I
> know it's not hard to install, but it would just be a nice feature
> that would make redhat seem more polished.

And then Red Hat will have to create some mechanism to re-download or 
rebuild the driver every time you install a new kernel or an XFree86 
update.  Not exactly a trivial thing to automate.

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