NVIDIA drivers working yet?

[Craig Preston]

Has anyone used these RPM's or know if they are safe to use?

http://atrpms.net/dist/fc5/nvidia-graphics/


On 22/03/06, Andy Green <andy at warmcat.com> wrote:
>
> Andy Green wrote:
> > Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:
> >
> >> if you want to get your hands dirty :)
> >>
> >> To install latest development kernels 2.6.16* :
> >> http://clunixchit.blogspot.com/2006/03/dave-joness-2616-12064fc5.html
> >
> > Oho I thought 'hands dirty' was going to be patching the thing, I would
> > rather wait, but in fact this is a link to a Dave Jones Special kernel
> > package, definitely going to try it.
> >
> >> To install nvidia drivers:
> >>
> http://clunixchit.blogspot.com/2006/02/fc5-test-2-nvidia-finally-successful.html
> >>
> >
> > Thanks for the pointers and the writeups.
>
> Aha, back with normal resolution again.
>
> I did use the nVidia binary installer, I don't recommend that anyone
> else does so, but if you do, you need to patch it with a patch from the
> nVidia forums, and as somebody pointed out a bit late for me :-) the
> modular xorg stuff has moved X's world to /usr/lib64/xorg on my box.
> You have to copy the nVidia files from /usr/X11R6/lib64 ->
> /usr/lib64/xorg and /usr/X11R6/lib64/modules/drivers ->
> /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers.
>
> Or you can use the Livna RPM.  Apparently the nVidia installer as it is
> can crap up 3D, I don't use 3D so I continue to use The Old Way.
>
> -Andy
>
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