nvida drivers

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Armin Moradi <feng.shaun at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Luc MAIGNAN <luc.maignan at winxpert.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I've done that. It seems to be ok but I don't have any 3D acceleration.
>>
>> Have I to use a commercial driver ?
>>
>> Armin Moradi a écrit :
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 6:15 PM, William Biggs <kc8pdr at gmail.com
>>> <mailto:kc8pdr at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>    where do I download and how do I install it for fedora 9 64 bit ?
>>>
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>>> do this in terminal:
>>>
>>> $ yum install kmod-nvidia
>>>
>>> you should have livna repository.  You can download and install it here:
>>> http://rpm.livna.org/rlowiki/
>>>
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> Well, I don't think there are updated drivers for the newest kernel yet, so
> you just have to wait!  That's why you don't have 3D effects.


No, that's not right.  Much more likely is that he didn't configure X
to use the nvidia driver.  Reading the driver README might be useful.
Running nvidia-xconfig would likely get the desired behavior.


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