On 04/24/2010 07:31 AM, John Hasler wrote:
Mark Allums writes:Ah, a matter of taste, then. (Debian tastes bad with Nvidia loaded, apparently.)No. A matter of support. Device driver bugs can cause crashes in apparently unrelated parts of the kernel.
I must not stress my system enough, because even using the nvidia driver, my machine is rock stable.
Thus in order to properly
debug kernel problems it is necessary to have complete source. When you
install a closed-source driver part of the kernel source is hidden from
the kernel maintainers, thus "tainting" the kernel. The maintainers
suggest that you ask whoever supplied the closed-source code for support
as only they have complete source for the kernel that you are having
trouble with.
Which is perfectly reasonable... -- Dissent is patriotic, remember?