"Up to this point unless building the Nouveau components from source, the only place to find this free software NVIDIA driver in action has been with Fedora."
Not actually true; Mandriva has had nouveau available as an optional package for a while, now. You could always install it with a single command, on Mandriva.
NVIDIA should be able to write their kernel module to work correctly even if the nouveau module is present - by forcibly unloading it if nothing else. So far, in Fedora, testing is somewhat unclear: it seems the two modules can co-exist in certain cases but not in others.
Not actually true; Mandriva has had nouveau available as an optional package for a while, now. You could always install it with a single command, on Mandriva.
NVIDIA should be able to write their kernel module to work correctly even if the nouveau module is present - by forcibly unloading it if nothing else. So far, in Fedora, testing is somewhat unclear: it seems the two modules can co-exist in certain cases but not in others.
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