5336-Nvidia Driver

[Tero Hanninen]

On Sun, 30 May 2004, HD wrote:

> Tero Hanninen wrote:
> >On Sun, 30 May 2004, HD wrote:
> >
> >>I am preparing to upgrade to FC2 from FC1 and I am currently using the 
> >>5336-Nvidia Driver with FC1. During the upgrade will it 
> >>automatically revert to the 2d nvidia driver? Or do I need to do 
> >>something before upgrading? I don't mind just using the 2d driver for 
> >>a while since I only occasionally use 3d. But I don't want anything to 
> >>go badly wrong during or after the upgrade to fc2.
> >>
> >
> >I'm posting this running FC2 and the 5336 Nvidia driver.
> >
> >I have a quick and dirty Nvidia installation HOWTO in my blog over here:
> >http://www.betabyte.net/node.php?id=133
> >
> >Your milage may vary, but I'll post it here anyway in hope that  it'll 
> >help someone
> >
> Thanks you very much! This information will all be very helpful when I 
> get to that point.
> 
> But I guess I didn't ask my initial question clearly enough or perhaps 
> I am simply asking the wrong question. What I am actually wanting to 
> know... Once I have upgraded to FC2 and before I am able to recompile 
> the Nvidia kernel module for the new kernel... will X work? And Will 
> FC2 with it's new kernel be using the nv driver until I get 5336 one 
> complied and installed? If not what will I actually be seeing?

Ah, ok, getting it now, slow brainday, sorry :-)
The installer on the FC2 disks won't be using the Xserver on your HDD,
so yeah, during the installation it'll be using the 'nv'
driver. I'm not entirely sure how it will behave after the
installation though, but my guess is it will rewrite the X config
file and keep using the 'nv' driver until you recompile the Nvidia one. 

/T 

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Tero Hänninen | tero at betabyte.net | http://www.betabyte.net/ |
"My friend, one thing you have to learn. There is always time for beer."
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