[ale] NVIDIA cards and drivers

[James P. Kinney III]

> Desktop users shouldn't have to go through this kind of
> tear-down and rebuild every time the Red Hat "up2date"
> program drops a new kernel in the hopper.

Desktop users shouldn't be running up2date with non-RedHat drivers.
up2date is for plain vanilla RedHat installs on a box used by
non-admins. If a desktop user has the ability to add a non-standard
nvidia kernel driver, then they would have the ability to update the
driver after an up2date run. But they also would not be updating kernels
which is how the setup for the nvidia drivers gets broken.

The next iteration of the nvidia drivers should include an auto-build
process to reinsert it into the kernel module tree if a kernel is
updated and the xconfig calls the nvidia drivers and the kernel module
is not loaded. It has already been greatly simplified as it is.

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