FC4 kernel with nvidia driver

[Jeff Vian]

On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 13:36 -0500, Bob Chiodini wrote:
> 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.
> 
In FC4 I had no problems using the default package from nvidia
regardless of which kernel I was running.
When I installed FC5t3 on my new x86_64 box I had to get the patch from
nvidia and apply it before I could even compile the new driver.

I don't know if that is the result of the newer kernel, or if it was the
change from 32bit to 64bit kernel, or from single processor to smp, or
what but it just worked once I managed to put all the puzzle pieces
together.


> Bob...
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