FC4 kernel with nvidia driver

Bob Chiodini rchiodin at bellsouth.net
Sun Feb 26 18:36:24 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 08:05 -0800, Todd Simi wrote:
> If you download from NVIDIA, make sure you check for all the patches you
> will need.  There are several depending on which kernel version you are
> running.
> 
> > > From: Matthew Saltzman <mjs at ces.clemson.edu>
> > > Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> > > To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> > > Subject: Re: FC4 kernel with nvidia driver
> > > Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 10:11:36 -0500 (EST)
> > > 
> > > On Sun, 26 Feb 2006, Randy Vice wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Are there any rpm'd FC4 kernels for nvidia's driver?  I know, evil 
> > > > closed source driver, but AFAIK, I'll need it for using Cedega 
> > > > (transgaming). Figure closed source driver is better then dealing with 
> > > > multi-booting XP with FC. ;)
> > > 
> > > There are NVidia driver RPMs for FC4 kernels at rpm.livna.org. 
> > > Alternatively, you can get the drivers directly from nvidia.com and 
> > > rebuild them yourself for any FC4 kernel.
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> 

Seems to work directly from nvidia here.  Kernel 2.6.15-1.1831_FC4.

AMD athlon 64 running 32-bit FC4.  The 64 bit version works for the
64-bit FC4 distro as well.

Bob...






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