New Nvidia 1.0-7167 driver for Linux x86 released

[Pasha]

Wong Kwok-hon wrote:

>On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 19:14:37 -0600, Donn Washburn <n5xwb at hal-pc.org> wrote:
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>>Donn Washburn wrote:
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>>>Roger Skildum wrote:
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>>>>*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.
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>>>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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>>It is fixed!  2.6.11 is up and so is X.  It seems to have better 3D
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>I installed and found that it is faster than nv in Xorg.conf
>But I just installed in kernel 770 . What should  I do if  I also want
>to install the driver in previous kernel?
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>Wong Kwok Hon
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run instaler with -k <kernel-version> option. kernel version should be 
the same as kernel directory in /lib/modules