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

Mon Jan 21 07:00:14 CET 2013

20.01.2013 23:50, Thomas Backlund kirjoitti:
+> 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.
+
+I also provide this script which can be used to build arbitrary versions
+of the nvidia packages (even before they hit cauldron):
+http://onse.fi/nvidia-mgabuild/
+
+It uses the official nvidia-current .spec, so the built packages should
+be just fine.
+
+-- 
+Anssi Hannula
+