cursed nvidia fedora my lack of knowledgeness

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, David Abbott wrote:

> Thanks for all the tips.
> I'm looking forward to getting home to have another crack at it.
> Please be assured that I have tried the basic:
>
> A. Download the drivers.
> http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-7676/NVIDIA-Linux-
> x86-1.0-7676-pkg1.run
> B. init 3.
> C. Execute the installation script.
> D. Edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> Under section Device, Replace 'Driver "nv"' with 'Driver "nvidia"'
> E. init 5.
>
> Tonight I think that I will try a full:
> yum update to get everything up to the latest.
> Although this will send me to kernel 2.6.13
> which haven't people had trouble getting the Nvidia drivers to work on?

None whatsoever here, using the LIVNA RPMs.

> its a 500mb install and I don't want to do it unless it is going to help.
> You have given me a few more things to try so thanks and hopefully tonight I
> will have some luck.
> Christopher your post was rich in content and I look forward to trying your
> install method as well.
>

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 		Matthew Saltzman

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