Keith Keller wrote:
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 01:30:07PM -0400, mark wrote:
Rafa³ Radecki wrote:
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Some vendors claim that updating your distro will void your warranty/ support contract. I had one vendor which claimed that updating the kernel to patch a serious security hole would void our contract (though they did ''allow'' us to update the rest of the distro).
It turns out, the vendor didn't want to allow users to update the kernel because they used the nvidia X11 drivers, and they didn't want to walk users
<snip> ARGH!!!
That's what I have on my personal machine at work, as do others. About a month, month and a half ago, an admin (now rolled off) upgraded a bunch of things on my machine without warning me. That included the nvidia driver... and the new one did *not* support my older card, and that was another hour to downgrade it, and fight X to get twinview working again.... I just fought that going up to 5.4 on a machine I was building, and had to build the bloody drivers.
I have no intention of buying nvidia cards, if I can help it.
mark