cursed nvidia fedora my lack of knowledgeness

[Rudolf Kastl]

2005/11/8, Gilboa Davara <gilboada at netvision.net.il>:
> The problem with using RPMs, is that Livna doesn't necessarily follows
> the FC kernel team release schedule.
> If a new kernel is released, and Livna fails to update their package in
> a timely fashion, you're left with text-only machine.
>
> Gilboa
>
> On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 10:32 +0000, Paul F. Johnson wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > > Just download the Linux driver from
> > > http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html.
> > > Once you have the NVIDIA_XXX.sh file, go down to init 3 (init 3 as root)
> > > and execute the script.
> > > After a couple of "yes", go back to init 5 (again as root). It should
> > > work.
> >
> > Personally, I'd use the ones from livna - you don't need to mess around
> > with dropping down to different init levels.
> >
> > TTFN
> >
> > Paul
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no you arent because the driver rpms from livna have a fallback to
"nv" driver if the kernel module for the booted kernel is missing ;))

regards,
rudolf kastl