[GRLUG] Broken Video Drivers / I'm a PC

[John-Thomas Richards]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 03:24:12PM -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 15:15 -0400, Ben DeMott wrote:
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> > One of the security updates (no idea which one) broke my video driver,
> > which I didn't realize right away but became apparent when hardware
> > accelerated programs wouldn't start.
> > What things can break a video driver - besides updating your kernel?
> 
> Any update to X can break a video driver,  I'd figure updating X is more
> likely to break X then updating a kernel. :)

The nVidia binary drivers are tied to specific kernel versions.  I have
never run Fedora.  Does Fedora automatically overwrite xorg.conf?  If
so, it may be using the plain nv driver rather than nVidia's blistering
fast driver.

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