got mine working after upg from FC2 to FC3..(used yum to upg, it worked good) dell 8600 laptop, nvidia 5200, 1920x1200 resolution.. 1. download the latest NVIDIA driver from their site. 2. download the kernel*src.rpm and build the RPM..(search this list on bulding kernel source RPM..note: i did have to give rpmbuild --target i686 for the RPM build to work.. install the kernel source. 3. while at runlevel 3, follow NVIDIA installation instructions. 4. after driver install, follow these steps to fix the udev stuff.. http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=1cc9bbaef198f359b9eddb5a35c05e51&t=40249 so far so good on FC3.. everytime I think the next version will be a drop in upgrade, nah!! we geeks got to make it harder everytime:-) On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 08:28:20 -0800, Christopher Garcia <christopher@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On some things that I've read, the only good NVidia video card drivers > only work good on the latest kernel. I'm still running FC2, but have > found that the newest kernel won't even let me boot into FC, so I have > to use an older one. What's the best way to get around that into getting > a good video driver? > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
