-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 18 March 2003 17:44, Guillaume Rousse wrote: > Ainsi parlait Per �yvind Karlsen : > > does'nt NVIDIA usually provide binary kernel RPMS for stock kernels? > > My own experience with newbies and NVidia drivers leads me to avoid RPMS at > all cost, and to prefer tar.gz: one only constant archive, while multiple > binary RPMS availble from NVidia website is confusing. And rebuilding SRPMS > is far much troublesome than "tar xvzf && make" urpmi kernel-source; rpm --rebuild NVIDIA_kernel-blablabal.src.rpm; rpm -ivh blabla/RPMS/arch/NVIDIA_kernel-blabla-arch.rpm is'nt that hard.. it's not *that* hard
I prefer to ask people to do that in stead.. and then they'll even learn something;) > > And BTW advising people to fetch individual RPMS from outside of well-known > repositories is a mistake IMHO. I think the same goes for sources, at least when they come from the same place;) > > > the drivers should also be available from the club or come with boxed > > sets.. > > They should in theory be more adapted, but i've seens to many surprises > with them. - -- Regards, Per �yvind Karlsen Sintrax Solutions http://www.sintrax.net - +47 41681061 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+d0/Bv8F7V9JOSuURAujIAJ0cPWbzW2WDl/r0X05spDJ0wtz0XwCeK2yJ grUA3r2Rn5BMV9gthquRgDQ= =fRPv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
