fedora support for nvidia nF3,nF4?

[Kevin J. Cummings]

charles f. zeitler wrote:
> does fedora core 3,4 support
> nvidia'a nForce3 or nForce4
> chipsets out-of-the-box,
> or would i have to deal
> with extra (external) drivers?

That depends on your definition of "out-of-the-box".

The XOrg "nv" driver will support most NVidia chipsets, albeit without 
3D support.  Out-of-the-box.  This driver is a part of the BASE install.

If you need 3D graphics support, you'll want to get NVidia's proprietary 
"nvidia" driver, which can be installed directly from NVidia, or via 
various yum repositories.  I recently switched from use the former to 
using the RPMs in the Livna repository.  You'll need to install a few 
RPMs to make it all work:

nvidia-glx
kernel-module-nvidia-$(uname -r)
nvclock  (if you want to overclock it)

And you'll have to re-install a new kernel-module-nvidia every time you 
install a new kernel (which means you'll have to wait for Livna to build 
it and make it available).  I found the latest one in livna-testing 
(while the previous 3 were already in livna-stable).

At least you can install/update via yum, just like other base/extras RPMs.

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