5336-Nvidia Driver

HD heterodox at satx.rr.com
Mon May 31 12:50:27 UTC 2004


Tero Hanninen wrote:
> 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 
> 
> 
Thanks, guess I'll have to keep my fingers crossed :)

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HD

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