SiS Video not recognised

Ashley Kitson akitson at bbcb.co.uk
Sun Jun 5 18:19:30 UTC 2005


Nvidia driver now installed and GL screen savers working.

Just a note for anyone else.  You need to run rpm -ivh rpm1 rpm2
where rpm1 and rpm2 are those mentioned by Christopher below.  The two
packages are mutually dependent so need installing together.

Many thanks
Ashley

Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> 
> 
> Better yet, go to http://rpmlivna.org and download their version of the
> driver. Its installation routine is much more "Fedora friendly" than the
> NVidia installer (uses RPM and doesn't step on other gl libraries).
> 
> For Fedora Core 3, browse to the following directory:
> http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/3/i386/RPMS.stable/
> 
>>From there, you'll need:
> 1) kernel-modula-nvidia-<your kernel version>-1.0.7174-0.lvn.1.3.<your
> Intel chip>.rpm
> 
> 2) nvidia-glx-1.0.7174-0.lvn.1.3.<your Intel chip>.rpm
> 
> Just download, install and you're pretty much there.
> 
> Alternatively, you can build your own from the source RPM, but
> installing these two will do the trick just as well on a FC3 system.
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> Chris
> 
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> God is answering.
> 
> -- Albert Einstein
> 
> 
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