[Mageia-dev] What's the point of the latest nvidia update?

Sun Jan 20 22:50:16 CET 2013

Robert Wood skrev 20.1.2013 23:16:
+> So you're saying that because v295 has been out a while you feel it's
+> stable so you're happy to have that in the official repositories? I can
+> kind of understand that, although in the case of nvidia you'd think they
+> had already done the bug fixing.
+>
+
+If that ever would be true...
+many times when they add support for new hardware, old support gets 
+either broken or dropped...
+
+for example going past 304.x to 310.x or higher drops hardware support
+for older hw.
+
+
+> Anyway, in the case of the latest nvidia version it certainly does have
+> new features, because it supports newer cards. In this case, it's not a
+> big thing because it's relatively easy for me to install, but I would
+> think that for new users who have modern software you'd really want them
+> to have access to it. After all M2 is the latest stable release.
+>
+
+But yes, this is a thing we need to improve... without breaking
+anything in the process...
+
+The best way for now to get newer drivers is to rebuild the srpm in 
+cauldron and install that.
+
+--
+Thomas
+
+