Re: How to install nvidia drivers for 2.6.23.15-137 kernel?

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sorry i thought you were talking about F9. I misread the kernel
version you have.  I thought it was 2.6.25.

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 7:02 PM, John Horne <john.horne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 17:24 -0400, slamp slamp wrote:
>  > this wont work. you have to use their beta driver. then you will have
>  > issues with Xorg because it thinks that the beta driver is not ABI
>  > compatible. So you will have to pass -ignoreABI option for Xorg. And I
>  > don't think 3D works in the beta drivers but at least twin-view works!
>  >
>  > http://www.nvidia.com/Download/betadrivers.aspx?lang=en-us
>  >
>  > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 5:34 AM, John Horne <john.horne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  > > On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 20:23 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>  > >  >
>  > >  > Humm, where did you get NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-169.12-pkg2.run?
>  > >  >
>  > >  I found the driver last night (for new mobo with onboard nvidia
>  > >  graphics) at
>  > >  http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/linux_display_amd64_169.12_uk.html
>  > >
>  > >
>  Erm... it does work :-) I have it (the driver) installed on my Fedora 8
>  system. It runs at (something like) 1120x1024 (on a 19" screen). 3D
>  graphics works fine it seems - at least the 3D openGL screensavers did
>  (euphoria was the one that usually 'stuck' if there was no 3d hardware
>  acceleration, but it ran with no problems), and glxgears ran at 1500+
>  FPS. I saw no problem with the driver at all.
>
>
>
>
>
>  John.
>
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