On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 15:48 -0700, Karl Larsen wrote: > Brian Gaynor wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 23:15 +0100, François Patte wrote: > > > > > >> But wher do you find nvidia driver for *f8* on freshrpms? What are the > >> yum magics for this? > >> > >> > > > > Go to the freshrpms home page and look for the > > > > "The easiest way to install freshrpms.net packages is to click here" > > > > link. Click where it says to "click here" and install the rpm to add > > freshrpms to your list of repos. The current DKMS enabled nvidia driver > > from frshrpms is nvidia-x11-drv, version 100.14.23-1. > > > > Brian > > > > > Just get the bash file from the Nvidia web page and you will not > need another RPM for Nvidia. > The question was about how to use the nicely packaged DKMS aware driver from frshrpms. Once you install the freshrpms RPM you get a driver that will automatically be rebuilt when the kernel changes and will be updated whenever freshrpms updates the package. I used the bash script for years, freshrpms DKMS package is way, way better. - Brian
