Re: cursed nvidia fedora my lack of knowledgeness

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BTW, nVidia's latest driver is 76.76 and not 71.74.
Download the latest driver installer from nVidia... it should solve your
problem..

Gilboa

On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 21:26 +1030, David Abbott wrote:
> This seems to be my problem.
> I've tried so many things that I am now reinstalling to start off with
> a clean slate.
> My DVD installer comes with kernel 2.6.11 and if you update it goes to
> 2.6.13..??
> There are various things on the list about who has dropped back to
> what kernel with what driver etc..
> so I am guessing I have to find the right combo.
> There was a very eye opening thread about the Nvidia drivers and about
> them not being open source and all that.
> ..
> As far as the open source nv driver goes it just doesn't pick up the
> 3d goodness which I need to run various intensive production tools.
> 
> After my fresh install I am going to try going straight into
> 
> yum install kernel-devel
> 
> Hopefully that will give me the correct source.
> 
> Then download the nvidia driver and bang that in.
> I'm up with shutting down X to get the driver in there.
> The problem with the Yum stuff as I get the error.
> 
> Error: Missing Dependency: nvidia-glx = 0:1.0.7174 is needed by
> package kernel-module-nvidia-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4
> Error: Missing Dependency: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 is needed
> by package kernel-module-nvidia-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4
> 
> You can see that the kernels don't match..
> 
> Well here goes ....again


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