On Monday 27 February 2006 00:31, Paul M Foster wrote:
> I can't stress enough how simple this is. I've now done this about three
> times on various boxes and various NVidia cards, and it went smoothly
> every time. Bottom line: don't worry about your kernel and such. Just
> build whatever you think you need for the kernel. And let NVidia worry
> about the drivers afterward.
I want ot chime in on what Paul said. Earlier on you had to get a new driver
every time you updated the kernel. And if there were no driver done for that
kernel version you had to wait. But then they unified their drivers and made
them work with any new kernel release. All you have to do is rerun the self
installing driver, which then relinks with the new kernel. Very smooth.
In my eyes there really is nothing evil about not having the source code for a
driver. We are so into open source that it's easy to get down on closed
source. The fact is that Nvidia is doing a great job with their drivers. They
are tightly developed to work with Linux. Much more so than ATI.
I must have done 10's of installs with it and I cannot complain at all. Sure
it would be easier not having to compile. Sure it would be easier if Nvidia
released the driver so it could be included in your distro. But they are
concerned over ATI and don't want to give them the leg up.
--Steve Szmidt
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