[PLUG] A bit confused about 2.6 kernel and X drivers

[Derek Loree]

On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 15:17, alan wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, AthlonRob wrote:
> 
> > On Thursday 03 June 2004 03:41 pm, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > > I wish nVidia would accept the fact they can't write a driver that
> > > doesn't require recompilation *EVERY FUCKING REBOOT* and *GIVE UP
> > > ALREADY*.  Earth to nVidia:  It's 2003, join the rest of us in the
> > > third millennium already and GPL your source!
> > 
> > Google about and you'll find explanations for why they cannot do this.
> > 
> > Legally, they'd find themselves fighting a lot of lawsuites, I fear, if they 
> > opened their driver code up.
> > 
> > They *are* a business out to make money, after all.
> 
> I am just wondering why he has to rebuild it every reboot.

I would imagine that he only reboots after changing his kernel, which
will keep the nVidia module from loading.  The 2.6 kernel seems to be
doing a better job of this, you don't have to recompile the nVidia
modules if you don't change the kernel version, but you do change your
kernel.

Derek Loree