Nicolas,
it sounds like your on top of this... You discuss issues about what
driver is best supported for various hardware configurations. Being the
type of guy who just want's it to work, and not so particular about top
performance, I download the latest nvidia driver for linux off the
nvidia site and build it. Couldn't we start with having the latest
driver in an akmod/kmod rpms? I guess I'm missing something.
I hope your able to resolve these issues soon. I'll be glad to try and
do some testing for you.
Steve.
Nicolas Chauvet wrote:
2009/3/19 Stephen Adler <[email protected]>:
Hi,
I just installed rhel5 and wanted to get the nvidia driver for it (akmod
version or any version actually) Doing some poking around it don't find it.
Is it not available and I'm just not doing the right thing to install it?
I'm ready to maintain nvidia there as soon as we have some agreement
on the method to package with kmod/akmod.
Until then, you may need to build your own akmod-\*.
For what is specific to the nvidia driver side, I wonder if:
- selinux in rhel will be compliant with the way we package the nvidia driver.
- They are rooms of improvement that are in wip, maybe we will want to
wait for the new packaging schemes of the prop. driver
(rpmfusion-config-display improvements etc).
- knowing which driver version (for a given nvidia serie) is best
suitable for rhel5/centos isn't that easy.
In some case, they is a need to have different components to match;
specially Cg cuda and others tools.
then some hardware may work better with an older version of the driver
whereas on the same hardware but with differents usage, another
version is best suitable.
So for all theses reasons it may not exist a common answear at this time.
But we can certainly start with packaging nvidia legacies series,
specially the 71xx serie that currently does not work with Fedora .
(despite 71xx support for newer xorg-xserver wil appear later
according to nvidia). As those legacy series won't change, we may keep
them at the same version until rhel is supported. which is what is
awaited for stability support with rhel
Nicolas (kwizart)
