New Nvidia 1.0-7167 driver for Linux x86 released

[Donn Washburn]

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.

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