screensaver that shows pictures without any effects

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Wed Dec 20 06:54:01 UTC 2006


Tim:
>> Using the nv video driver, on a card too old for the current nvidia
>> driver.  I did experiment with trying the nvidia-legacy package, but
>> all the grief involved in getting it installed didn't provide any
>> tangible benefit over the nv one (there was no obvious acceleration
>> or alternative screen mode choices).

Todd Zullinger:
> With Livna enabled you could do "yum install kmod-nvidia-legacy" to
> install the nvidia driver if you wanted.  That might help ease the
> grief of doing it manually.

That was how I did it.  Much of the grief revolved around the anaconda
stuff up of installing the wrong kernel.  Then, after that, I had to
deal with python errors when trying to run system-config-display with
the kmod-nvidia-legacy provided drivers.





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