X.org, distributors, and proprietary modules [LWN.net]

X.org, distributors, and proprietary modules

Posted Aug 15, 2006 10:05 UTC (Tue) by liljencrantz (guest, #28458)
In reply to: X.org, distributors, and proprietary modules by warmcat1
Parent article: X.org, distributors, and proprietary modules

No, this upgrade, had it happened, should _not_ have busted any existing working FC5 installs that use the nVidia binary driver. In a correctly installed system the driver is installed as an RPM with dependencies to a specific X.org version, so X.org wouldn't be updated until the binary driver was available. I don't know if the nVidia drivers provided by the various repos out there have correctly implemented dependencies, but if not, then they should be fixed, and this would not be an issue.

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X.org, distributors, and proprietary modules

Posted Aug 15, 2006 10:37 UTC (Tue) by warmcat1 (guest, #31975) [Link] (1 responses)

Newsflash - not everyone is using livna RPMs. Even for those that are, if the new kernel got installed and was used next boot, the last I heard the livna scripts send you to vesa. Okay so that is better than text mode, but it still breaks 3D, xv and so on for those users.

X.org, distributors, and proprietary modules

Posted Aug 15, 2006 14:50 UTC (Tue) by liljencrantz (guest, #28458) [Link]

If you're not using RPMs like those from Livnia, your system will break _every_time_ you upgrade your kernel, anyway. I'm not saying that one _shouldn't_ use non-packaged drivers, but if you do, you _will_ have to manually check and work around dependencies.