On 07/28/2010 03:03 PM, Antonio Olivares wrote: > > --- On Wed, 7/28/10, Chris Adams<cmad...@hiwaay.net> wrote: > > >> From: Chris Adams<cmad...@hiwaay.net> >> Subject: Re: Still no kmod for new Nvidia >> To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org >> Date: Wednesday, July 28, 2010, 2:49 PM >> Once upon a time, Michael Miles >> <mmami...@gmail.com> >> said: >> >>> And before too much is said why does RPM Fusion have >>> >> right on their main >> >>> page to contact The Fedora users group for help on RPM >>> >> Fusions software. >> >> If Microsoft put on their web site to post here for >> questions, would >> that make it valid? >> >> Problems with RPM Fusion should be taken up with RPM >> Fusion. If they >> don't respond, then maybe you shouldn't use RPM Fusion. >> -- >> Chris Adams<cmad...@hiwaay.net> >> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet >> Services >> I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough >> trouble. >> -- >> > If Microsoft puts such a statement, then if we ask here about something > > We are in deep trouble, Need to call a Firefighter to put out the FLAMES :) > > I agree with you Chris :), but sadly since the base system is Fedora even > with nvidia drivers[from rpmfusion] people will continue to ask about it. > > If Fedora folks, would not tell people, hey use rpmfusion, it incorporates > nicely with Fedora packages, then it would make a difference? > > Hey you want nvdia drivers, get them yourselves from nvidia, build them, > install them, if your machine burns, rots, or dies you are on your own and > Fedora won't take responsibility for your actions then the situation might be > different? > > Some folks quietly use nvidia drives straight from nvidia and they don't > complain, they know what they are doing, others use akmod, or kmod, others > have to wait till the nvidia kernel module builds? but to each their own. > > Regards, > > Antonio > > NOTE: > I am happily using nouveau on Fedora 12 > > [oliva...@localhost ~]$ uname -a > Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.32.10-90.fc12.i686.PAE #1 SMP Tue Mar 23 > 10:04:28 UTC 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux > > [r...@localhost ~]# lsmod | grep 'nouveau' > nouveau 292645 2 > ttm 40321 1 nouveau > drm_kms_helper 22251 1 nouveau > drm 135451 4 nouveau,ttm,drm_kms_helper > i2c_algo_bit 4073 1 nouveau > i2c_core > > And yes, I am on older kernel than the one that you have, but I would like to > run 2.6.34 here and am lazy to compile it :( > > > > > I wish that nouveau would support cuda then this mess would be obsolete.
As it is nouveau and any real support for Nvidia is not there. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
