Nvidia and Fedora 3-5

Steven Pasternak stevenp500 at bellsouth.net
Sun Mar 26 00:04:09 UTC 2006


Randy Vice wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Mauriat Miranda wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>> Plain and simple Fedora requires extra steps (whereas something like
>> Suse or Mandriva etc do many extra steps *for* you). If this wasn't
>> obvious (over the past 4 releases) I hope it is now.
>>
>> With each distributions there are compromises. Suse is *very* nice
>> btw, if it serves your needs don't waste your time with Fedora.
>
> But having nVidia driver for FC option would suit my needs.  Is this 
> mostly over politics of closed v. open?  There really should be an 
> easy option during the install if the end user wants FC setup with 
> nVidia driver or xorg's.  I think that's a pretty reasonable option to 
> give folks.
>
> Randy
>
Go to rpm.livna.org. They have a good set of instructions for getting 
nvidia on FC5 (or 4 if you use it).
-Steven




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