NVidia's Driver's and the latest FC2 kernel

[Kevin Freeman]

On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 11:34 -0700, jithu wrote:
> got mine working after upg from FC2 to FC3..(used yum to upg, it worked good)
> dell 8600 laptop, nvidia 5200, 1920x1200 resolution..
> 
> 1. download the latest NVIDIA driver from their site.
> 2. download the kernel*src.rpm and build the  RPM..(search this list on bulding 
> kernel source RPM..note: i did have to give rpmbuild --target i686 for
> the RPM build to work..
> install the kernel source.
> 3. while at runlevel 3, follow NVIDIA installation instructions.
> 4. after driver install, follow these steps to fix the udev stuff..
> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=1cc9bbaef198f359b9eddb5a35c05e51&t=40249
> 

I'm not trying to ruin your excitement, but you could have completely
skipped step 2 and still had the same results ...

Kevin Freeman