I installed the latest nVidia drivers on a FC4 box yesterday with no
problems.
-brian
Brian D. McGrew { brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx || brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx }
---
> Those of you who think you know it all,
really annoy those of us who do!
-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Globe Trotter
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 6:45 AM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: nvidia GEForce graphics card issue with FC4
--- Jeff Vian <jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 09:03 +0200, Klaasjan Brand wrote:
> >
> > On 9/22/05, Globe Trotter <itsme_410@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Has anyone successfully managed to get the following done?
> >
> >
>
http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index.php/Fedora_Core_4_Linux_Installati
on_Notes#nVidia:
> >
> >
> > Installing the official nVidia drivers (which is explained on the
> > referenced site) can be a bit complicated.
>
> What do you mean complicated?
> It involves 2 steps and a reboot.
> 1. boot to runlevel 3 and login as root, cd to the directory where
you
> downloaded the NVIDIA.....run file, and run "sh NVIDIA....run" to
> compile the driver.
> 2. edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and change the driver from "nv" to
"nvidia"
> then reboot
>
> The most complex part is you must have installed the kernel-devel
> package for your kernel for this to work.
>
> > If you just want the drivers to work, try the Livna packages by
> > following the instructions at
http://rpm.livna.org/livna-switcher.html
> >
>
> Admittedly, this is a simpler approach for the install, since you do
not
> even have to reboot to do the install, but you do have to still edit
the
> xorg.conf file and then reboot (or otherwise restart the X server) to
> activate the new driver.
>
> However, if I was using the livna rpm approach, the recent snafu with
> the xorg updates would have totally blown me away with inability to
use
> the nvidia driver until an updated package was available from livna.
> I was able to recompile using the official package ( the .run file)
> install procedure and was back up immediately.
>
I agree it is not complicated. However, at least nowadays, it is not
possible
to update the kernel module because it hangs while contacting
ftp.mvidia.com.
Thanks!
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