Re: nvidia driver question

It's ok now, i used nvidia's 1.0-5336 driver & kernel module from atrpms. I don't know why, but it yelled that it has something like atrpm-config or something like that in deps and it conflicts with my version of yum. However, workaround was very simple - renaming yum.conf to yum.conf.backup or whatever, let atrpm-config or whatever install it's own version of yum.conf, and thed replace it with the old one.

At least i have the header files! (But i miss livna's config utility)

The link was broken but i found the page - nothing more than flame. And this "bug" was fixed before 5336. I found more useful information in http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=14

FC1 and other Linux users with nvidia cards and drivers should read it time after time. Luckily i haven't experienced problems discussed there yet.

Daniel Stonier wrote:

There's a detailed explanation of the redhat/nvidia state of affairs atm at

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/long_list/cgi?buglist=110124

If that fails, just do a google for "redhat bugzilla nvidia".

Cheers,
Daniel.

On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 17:54:59 +0200, thedogfarted <thedogfarted@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

I wonder if i should install nvidia display driver form nvidia.com instead of my current driver from livna.

i have now installed following rpms:

nvidia-glx-1.0.4620-0.lvn.18.1
kernel-module-nvidia-2.4.22-1.2174.nptl-1.0.4620-0.lvn.18.1
nvidia-glx-devel-1.0.4620-0.lvn.18.1

and now i've downloaded NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run

The reason why i want to install is that i still have Mesa's GL header files in /usr/include. If i remember correctly, nvidia's install replaced them with their own, and this is what i need.

Why they weren't replaced when i installed driver from rpm? Can i safely just get the nvidia's GL header files and replace the existing ones?