On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 10:01 -0800, MargoAndTodd wrote: > The FC9 version has SRPM's and all. It would be nice if > we ported them to CentOS 5.x.
Why you would need a newer driver at all? Just for the sake of having a newer version installed on your computer (= for no valid reason) or this release fixes some important bugs you are constantly experiencing? The version of X is very different between FC6 (CentOS 5) and FC9. I know for sure that there was a major ABI change in FC10 (xserver 1.5), so their drivers no longer work on older X. I am not sure if the drivers for xserver 1.4.99 still work on xserver 1.1.1 or not. Usually, the only thing that changes between nVidia releases after the support for a specific card has been added is the support for newer kernels and xserver; maybe some small bugfixes. They are not keen on optimizing the performance for the cards already supported by the driver. As the saying goes, if ain't broke, don't fix it. > Question: since install the beta, have you successfully > gone through any kernel updates? CentOS uses the same x.y.z kernel for the whole lifespan of the distro, the only thing that changes is x.y.z-w, I am not sure how it's called officially, but I assume it can be referred as patch level. So if the driver is not buggy, there should not be any changes as the ABI stays the same. -- Sincerely yours, Yury V. Zaytsev _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rpmforge.net/mailman/listinfo/users
