New Nvidia 1.0-7167 driver for Linux x86 released

[Donn Washburn]

Donn Washburn wrote:
> Roger Skildum wrote:
> 
>>*I haven't seen it mentioned here yet. Nvidia released the new 7167 
>>driver yesterday.  I have a old TNT2 video card that did not work with 
>>there previous drivers and FC3.  Had to go back to the 6111 driver.  I 
>>installed the 7167 driver today, compiled and ran without error.  Did 
>>not have to do anything special.  Has a much better frame rate than I 
>>had with the 6111 driver.  So far very stable.  some of the improvements 
>>that seem important are:* Improved compatibility with Linux 2.6 
>>kernels,  Fixed NvAGP incompatibility with recent Linux 2.6 kernels,  
>>Improved interaction with the udev filesystem.
>>
> 
> Well I reported to them about a failure compiling aginst  kernel 
> 2.6.11 - maybe that is fixed
> They last version worked on 2.6.10 just fine.
> 
It is fixed!  2.6.11 is up and so is X.  It seems to have better 3D

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