cursed nvidia fedora my lack of knowledgeness

Gilboa Davara gilboada at netvision.net.il
Tue Nov 8 10:38:40 UTC 2005


The problem with using RPMs, is that Livna doesn't necessarily follows
the FC kernel team release schedule.
If a new kernel is released, and Livna fails to update their package in
a timely fashion, you're left with text-only machine.

Gilboa

On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 10:32 +0000, Paul F. Johnson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > Just download the Linux driver from
> > http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html.
> > Once you have the NVIDIA_XXX.sh file, go down to init 3 (init 3 as root)
> > and execute the script.
> > After a couple of "yes", go back to init 5 (again as root). It should
> > work.
> 
> Personally, I'd use the ones from livna - you don't need to mess around
> with dropping down to different init levels.
> 
> TTFN
> 
> Paul
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