F7 nvidia-96xx driver problem

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 7/24/07, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 July 2007, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> >Hi folks!
> >
> >Having an oldish GeForce 4 type video card, I tried to get 3D acceleration,
> > so (after some inquiry on the nVidia website) I did
> >
> ># yum install kmod-nvidia-96xx
> >
> >Yum took the package from Livna, took the appropriate xorg-x11-driver file,
> >installed them both successfully. I verified the xorg.conf file that was
> >modified in the process, and it looks perfectly sane to me. But, after
> > startx all I get is a blank dark screen, and all I can do is to press the
> > reset button.
>
> That's an older release, current is NVIDIA-Linux-x86-100.14.11-pkg1.run,
> installed by directly executing the file during bootup.  It Just Works(TM).
> Get it from the nvidia site, much fresher stock.

100.14.11 doesn't support his GPU.  He needs to use 1.0-9639.