On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 12:43:29PM -0700, alan wrote:
>>Cool. The only problem I see is that the nVIDIA kernel
driver is bjorken
>>with xorg 7.1. (And will be until they create a Linux driver for the 9xxx
>>series of drivers.)
>>
>>Are there x86_64 builds?
>
>Yes, but only for the FC6t1 kernel (2.6.16-1.2289_FC6). I saw that the
>build breaks for rawhide kernels, so I didn't make the nvidia builds
>public, yet.
BTW the next ATrpms update will contain FC6 kmdls for rawhide kernels
(and userland), too. The constraints you mention below are still
valid, though.
The problem with the nVIDIA kernel module is not the kernel. It is
that
the ABI for Xorg changed. The driver builds fine, but display is weird.
Font display is iffy. There is a way to get it working, but it involved
disabling render and abi.
Yes, you need Option "RenderAccel" "0"
It is supposed to be fixed in the next revision of the nVIDIA driver,
but
I have yet to get a timeline as to when that will be released. (And the
new driver will be needed to get alglx running.)
I guess currently in FC6 scope one should avoid the nvidia closed
source driver. Hopefully there will soon be a fix. But I have the
impression that nvidia will probably wait until FC6 reaches closer to
release to fix any other new issues creeping up until then. Let's see.
--
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