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

[Ben DeMott]

Yes, Fedora manages the xorg.conf file - and in addition it is my
understanding the Livna version (fedora) is a hacked FOSS version of the
driver - because they don't like including any proprietary or non-open
source software in their Distro - which is a topic for another day, but I
think the one straight from Nvidia performs better, and is more up to date -
but the smallest things seem to break it - in addition if you accidentally
open the Display Manager in Fedora it attempts to access the (NOW Nvidia
Managed) xorg.conf file and screws it up.
(sigh)

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 3:36 PM, John-Thomas Richards <jtr at jrichards.org>wrote:

> 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:
> [snip]
> > > 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.
>
> [snip]
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