FC3:NVIDIA Problems, Again

Patrick Ryan Vinson pvinson at fit.edu
Tue Nov 9 03:09:13 UTC 2004


> > New Release from NVIDIA yet it won't work with FC3/2.6.9-1.667-custom.
> > Strangely no problems with Korg 2.6.9. Any ideas?
> > 
> > I have one: NEVER buy another machine with an NVIDIA card.
> 
> At least nVIDIA supports all of their currently shipping cards with their 
> drivers.  ATI only supports the "top of the line" cards.  
> 
> Yes they are closed source.  Better closed source drivers than none at 
> all.
> 
> And it worked fine on my system.  Then again, I am using the x86_64 
> build...

I have no problems with the latest released NVidia drivers and the
2.6.9-1.667 kernel.  I didn't even have to add that patch this time
around.  However, if they did not compile properly or you are unable to
load the nvidia module.  I would suggest trying to apply that patch
which was mentioned earlier.




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