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X.org, distributors, and proprietary modules

X.org, distributors, and proprietary modules

Posted Aug 15, 2006 10:37 UTC (Tue) by warmcat1 (guest, #31975)
In reply to: X.org, distributors, and proprietary modules by liljencrantz
Parent article: X.org, distributors, and proprietary modules

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.

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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.


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