FC3 and Nvidia driver 7167

[Eric Tanguy]

Le mercredi 23 mars 2005 à 22:28 +0530, Ankur Jain a écrit :
> Yeah, I could download the drivers from livna, but yum was also
> updating the kernel to 2.6.10, and I wanted to avoid that, till my X
> was not working.
> 
> But if the new driver can be downloaded and installed without updating
> the drivers, do tell me and send me either the url/file to download
> and install the drivers.
> 
> Regards 
> Ankur Jain
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 16:21:59 +0000, Jonathan Underwood
> <j.underwood at open.ac.uk> wrote:
> > 
> > > It's a udev issue.  The modules need to be copied to the /udev directory
> > >   before you reboot:
> > >
> > >
> > > cp -a /dev/nvidia* /etc/udev/devices/
> > >
> > > chown root: /etc/udev/devices/nvidia*
> > >
> > > [This is from the Fedora FAQ at www.fedorafaq.org/custom_nvidia.html
> > >
> > > --
> > > Joel
> > >
> > 
> > Actually, it isn't this. The new nvidia driver is able to interact with
> > udev properly, and it's not necessary to manually create those nodes. I
> > am running 7167 allowing udev to create the nodes as needed.  The issue
> > was with the previous releases of the nvidia driver.
> > 
> > I can send you an rpm of the nvidia drivers if you like (home rolled),
> > or you can download one from livna or atrpms, I believe.
> > 
> > Jonathan.
> > 
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It seems to me that the nvidia driver have some problems with 3ddesktop.
The last time i tried it it didn't work because 3ddesktop didn't find
hardware acceleration. Any news about this ?

Eric

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