Updating files

[Chadley Wilson]

On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 14:24, Brittany wrote:
> Im sorry for asking theses questions but im wanting to see if i get this
> to work correctly and if im doing this right. 
> 
> when i go to http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp and click
> on graphics drivers>GeForce and TNT2 Theirs bunch of Linux options that
> i can choose from.
>  
> Linux IA32
> Linux AMD64
> Linux IA64
> FreeBSD
> 
> I cannot decide which one is correct for me. 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Brittany
> Operating system used by Fedora Core 1.90 Test 1 Linux (Red hat)
> Website: http://www.redhat.com/
> Downloads http://fedora.linux.duke.edu/
> 
> 
> On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 22:45 -0600, Dennis Calhoun wrote:
> > On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 22:33:30 -0500, you wrote:
> > 
> > >Hello again.
> > >
> > >Whenever i update my files it gives me another, newer version whenever i
> > >reboot my machine but what the problem is that i cannot access the
> > >graphical desktop. it gives me the text only. how can i fix it so that
> > >it can work?
> > 
> > If I read this right, you are speaking of a problem that you are
> > having whenever you update your kernel, right?
> > 
> > If so and if you have a non-standard driver for your display adaptor
> > installed, such as nvidia, you will have to either recompile the
> > adaptor or remove it and install a newer version of the driver that is
> > already appropriate for the newer kernel.
> > 
> > Every time I do a kernel update I have to recompile the nvidia driver
> > for my system, using text commands only, before the GUI can be
> > accessed using the new kernel. I do so by changing to the directory
> > that contains the driver file and then running it with the command
> > sh <filename>
> > where <filename> is the exact name of the driver file.
> > 
> > So far this has worked well for me every time, without having to do
> > anything else outside of the actual installation procedures that the
> > driver script presents.
> > 
> > Dennis C.
> > 
> > 
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> 
It depends on your CPU, what CPU do you have?
Maddy