Re: Nvidia proprietary drivers vs. Fedora xorg packages

2010-08-17 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 20:01 -0700, john wendel wrote: > I should just keep quiet, but anyhow ... Yes, why tempt fate, when you can... ;-) > I just installed the latest evil Nvidia driver, which works great on > my F11 box, and nothing is broken. I just did 'ls -ltr' in all > the /usr directories

Re: Nvidia proprietary drivers vs. Fedora xorg packages

2010-08-16 Thread john wendel
On 08/16/2010 10:17 AM, Mikkel wrote: > On 08/16/2010 07:38 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: >> On Monday, August 16, 2010 05:03:54 Tim wrote: >>> On Sun, 2010-08-15 at 17:12 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: I fear that there are technical reasons why Nvidia is releasing files with conflicting na

Re: Nvidia proprietary drivers vs. Fedora xorg packages

2010-08-16 Thread Mikkel
On 08/16/2010 07:38 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Monday, August 16, 2010 05:03:54 Tim wrote: >> On Sun, 2010-08-15 at 17:12 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: >>> I fear that there are technical reasons why Nvidia is releasing files >>> with conflicting names. >> >> Considering that others have repa

Re: Nvidia proprietary drivers vs. Fedora xorg packages

2010-08-16 Thread Tim
Tim: >> Considering that others have repackaged the same drivers, so they >> install without stuffing up the original system files, the answer >> would probably be that there is no good reason, just laziness on >> their behalf. >> >> If they're making the drivers, they can make it ask for files wi

Re: Nvidia proprietary drivers vs. Fedora xorg packages

2010-08-16 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Monday, August 16, 2010 05:03:54 Tim wrote: > On Sun, 2010-08-15 at 17:12 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > I fear that there are technical reasons why Nvidia is releasing files > > with conflicting names. > > Considering that others have repackaged the same drivers, so they > install without

Re: Nvidia proprietary drivers vs. Fedora xorg packages

2010-08-15 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2010-08-15 at 17:12 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > I fear that there are technical reasons why Nvidia is releasing files > with conflicting names. Considering that others have repackaged the same drivers, so they install without stuffing up the original system files, the answer would pro

Re: Nvidia proprietary drivers vs. Fedora xorg packages

2010-08-15 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 17:12:13 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > I used the kmod/akmod happily for some time, till google earth stopped > working under the kmod/akmod driver. (The open source (nouveau) driver, > which would have been preferable doesn't support the 3D hardware which > google

Re: Nvidia proprietary drivers vs. Fedora xorg packages

2010-08-15 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Sun, 2010-08-15 at 17:56 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: > Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > If you use the Nvidia proprietary drivers (as I do) be aware that > > installing some of the xorg*.rpm packages can break these drivers in > > subtle ways. In particular, xorg-x11-server-Xorg.*.rpm contains the

Re: Nvidia proprietary drivers vs. Fedora xorg packages

2010-08-15 Thread Todd Zullinger
Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > If you use the Nvidia proprietary drivers (as I do) be aware that > installing some of the xorg*.rpm packages can break these drivers in > subtle ways. In particular, xorg-x11-server-Xorg.*.rpm contains the > file /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so, which confli

Nvidia proprietary drivers vs. Fedora xorg packages

2010-08-15 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
If you use the Nvidia proprietary drivers (as I do) be aware that installing some of the xorg*.rpm packages can break these drivers in subtle ways. In particular, xorg-x11-server-Xorg.*.rpm contains the file /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so, which conflicts with a file with the same na