FC4 kernel with nvidia driver

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Mon Feb 27 11:18:19 UTC 2006


Gilboa Davara wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 09:37 -0500, 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. ;)
>>
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> 
> 
> Either download the nvidia drivers source/RPM from Livna or download the
> nVidia installer from nvidia.com.
> 
> Both should work just fine.

I'd suggest the Livna RPMs in preference to the official nvidia 
installer, which may clobber your system in unexpected ways. See:

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2006-February/msg01178.html

Paul.




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