How to install nvidia drivers for 2.6.23.15-137 kernel?

[John Horne]

On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 17:24 -0400, slamp slamp wrote:
> this wont work. you have to use their beta driver. then you will have
> issues with Xorg because it thinks that the beta driver is not ABI
> compatible. So you will have to pass -ignoreABI option for Xorg. And I
> don't think 3D works in the beta drivers but at least twin-view works!
> 
> http://www.nvidia.com/Download/betadrivers.aspx?lang=en-us
> 
> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 5:34 AM, John Horne <john.horne at plymouth.ac.uk> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 20:23 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >  >
> >  > Humm, where did you get NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-169.12-pkg2.run?
> >  >
> >  I found the driver last night (for new mobo with onboard nvidia
> >  graphics) at
> >  http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/linux_display_amd64_169.12_uk.html
> >
> >
Erm... it does work :-) I have it (the driver) installed on my Fedora 8
system. It runs at (something like) 1120x1024 (on a 19" screen). 3D
graphics works fine it seems - at least the 3D openGL screensavers did
(euphoria was the one that usually 'stuck' if there was no 3d hardware
acceleration, but it ran with no problems), and glxgears ran at 1500+
FPS. I saw no problem with the driver at all.



John.

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