Keith Keller wrote: > On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 01:30:07PM -0400, mark wrote: >> Rafa³ Radecki wrote: <snip> > 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