nvidia blues

Lonni J Friedman netllama at gmail.com
Tue Oct 30 14:24:31 UTC 2007


On Oct 30, 2007 6:20 AM, Chris Jones <jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
> >    I had nvidia running fine on this computer using the kmod-nvidia
> > files that come from fedora. Then I was told about better nvidia
> > software from their web site. I got it and tried to install it on this
> > computer. It did not install and it ruined the older nvidia.
>
> Not a good idea to do that.
>
> Note that the livna driver is *exactly* the same as the one you got from
> the nvidia site, just repackaged as an rpm. There is nothing "better"
> about it.

That's not quite true.  The Livna packages have had a number of bugs
that the official NVIDIA driver packages never had.  Most of it has
been file omissions.




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