On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 08:02:04PM -0800, Endymion wrote: > Eugen Leitl wrote: > >Dual-head doesn't work on FC5 -- no surprise there. But I can't > >load binary modules, and > >http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-fc5.html#nvidia > >didn't work for me -- this is Linux helium 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 #1 SMP Tue > >Mar 14 15:48:20 EST 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux -- so I can't > >reuse my > >xorg.conf from FC4. > > > >Has anyone been able to get dual-head and nvidia accelerated to work > >on FC5 x86_64? > > > > > Yes, I have been using the nvidia driver on FC5 since the night I > installed it. I had to apply a patch to the driver and install a newer > 2.6.16-1 kernel from davej's site: > http://people.redhat.com/davej/kernels/Fedora/FC5/RPMS.kernel/ . I also > reused the xorg.conf file i had been using on FC4. Thanks, Endymion. For some reason that didn't work for me. What however worked for me was: yum --enablerepo=livna-testing --enablerepo=updates-testing install kmod-nvidia-1.0.8178 yum --enablerepo=livna-testing --enablerepo=updates-testing install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-1.0.8178 copy old xorg.conf to /etc/X11/xorg.conf reboot to new kernel -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
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