Re: Livna Nvidia with Kernel 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7

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On Tuesday 19 June 2007 23:53:58 Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> On 6/19/07, Charles Curley <charlescurley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 03:21:19PM -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> > > On 6/19/07, Charles Curley <charlescurley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > I work for NVIDIA.
> >
> > That would help.
> >
> > > But even if I didn't the driver README documents which GPUs are
> > > supported in which releases.  The official driver installer would
> > > also refuse to install the driver if your GPU wasn't supported.
> >
> > Thank you. Since I was not aware that Nvidia has split their drivers,
> > I was still under the impression that the Nvidia driver supported all
> > Nvidia cards. So course it didn't occur to me to read the README to
> > check on this. But with RPMs, you don't get the README until after
> > you've installed the RPM, a nasty chicken and egg problem.
>
> The driver README is also available on NVIDIA's website:
> http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/100.14.09/README/index.html

A bit off topic but you can always use "Midnight Commander" to view/edit/copy 
files from any RPM installed or Not,  just open the RPM with MC and check the 
contents of CONTENTS.cpio

Colin
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