Re: LCD Monitors and Fedora

["William M. Quarles" <quarlewm@xxxxxxx>]

As I recall, nVIDIA has pre-built drivers for most distributions.  I 
think that some are included, and if it can't find one that it is 
included, it attempts to download the appropriate driver from the web 
server.  It uses compilation as a last resort.  You're probably ahead of 
their game every time that you download the package.

Peace,
William

Michael J. Pawlowsky wrote:
> nv didn't do it at all for me...   I downloaded the kernel source and 
> with the Driver tool on their site ( 
> http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-6629.html ) it 
> compiled the nvidia driver for me.
>
> The hassle is everytime you upgrade kernels, you need to redo this 
> process. I've been doing it for since RedHat 7.3 and way too many 
> kernels!  :-)
>
> Every so often (like this time) you need to update their tool. I was 
> getting the error it could not find the kernel source. And then I 
> updated the tool and it compiled no problem. Well one warnnig abouf not 
> being compatible with another driver in the kernel  vesatab or something 
> like that. I looked and I did not see it loaded so I ignored that warning.
>
>
> Mike
>
>
>
> William M. Quarles wrote:
>
> > Mike
> >
> > Just curious, are you using the official nVIDIA DRI-ish drivers, or 
> > just the generic nv server?
> >
> > Peace,
> > William