On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 01:12, François Patte wrote: > Selon Phil Dybvig <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > > > Bonjour Francois -- > > > > >From: François Patte <Francois.Patte@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > >To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > >I installed nvidia stuff according to the livna web page claiming that it is > > >better to use their rpm package than the "official" nvidia-installer from > > >nvidia site... So now the problems: > > > > Did you try the nvidia installer? It worked fine for me. I'm not sure why > > the > > packages compiled for someone else's configuration is supposed to be better. > > > I have never used the RPMs. Only the nvidia installer and it "just works". > I have installed the driver from rpm, because I think that it is easier to > update the system using yum; in that case, when yum update the kernel I dare to > think that the modules for that new kernel are also updated at the same time > (That wasn't the case for kernel xxxx-2199-xxx > NOPE. The binary part of the driver has to be recompiled for the new kernel with every update I have done on the kernel. The RPM may be a good way, but it is extremely easy to do the reinstall using the nvidia setup procedure. > > For help, the linux discussion group at www.nvidia.com is a better place for > > answers > > than this list. (That discussion group be accessed from the page for the > > drivers.) > > Thank you for this hint, I'll post on it. >
