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

[Anssi Hannula]

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