How to install the Nvidia driver in Fedora Core 5 ?

Lyvim Xaphir knightmerc at yahoo.com
Thu Apr 13 23:34:41 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 19:05 -0400, Nikhil Fernandes wrote:

> 
> http://rpm.pbone.net has 7174 drivers for Fedora Core 4, but not for
> Fedora Core 5. They do have the 8178 drivers for FC5. Will either of
> those work for you?
> 
> Nik
> 

His 7174 drivers will need to be compiled for the FC5 kernel.  I don't
think a binary-only rpm can do that(I believe they are kernel specific),
I think he would need one of the OLD nvidia installer downloads, version
7174, that is capable of compiling itself against the installed kernel-
devel package.

If he does find an installer of that version, hopefully that installer
will be able to compile with the new version of GCC and the newer glibc
libs.  He's going to need to keep his fingers crossed with that.

I personally would be hoping that the Nvidia corporation download would
work, that seems to be his best chance.

If not....new video card.

LX
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