Questions from a testing newbie

Konstantin Ryabitsev icon at fedoraproject.org
Sat Jun 24 14:44:48 UTC 2006


On 6/24/06, Jay Cliburn <jacliburn at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> On my FC5 system, I hold off on kernel updates until Livna has an Nvidia
> video driver rpm available, but I'd guess there's no kernel-matched
> Nvidia driver at Livna for kernels in test, right?  Given the admonition
> from someone at Redhat a couple of months ago not to use the Nvidia
> driver install script, how to Fedora testers keep Nvidia video drivers
> up to date?

X will continue to work even if you are missing an updated nvidia
driver -- X will revert to a free driver if the proprietary one isn't
found on boot.

This doesn't hold true for various other non-free drivers, such as
madwifi, so indeed -- in such cases turning off test updates for
kernels makes sense.

-- 
Konstantin Ryabitsev
Montréal, Québec




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