FC6 and NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9626

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 10/23/06, James <jdickson at cimtel.net> wrote:
> I am re-posting this because I was told that this needed to go to
> fedora-list and not fedora-test-list... Ok here it is..
>
> Annndd I have been informed that livna-testing has the rpms in there
> repository. I was not aware  of that and spent the better half of today
> trying to get the nvidia acript to work... I did search for this
> solution but nothing came up for ivna beta nvidia drivers ... So I came
> up with the solution below.
>
> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> I have FC6 installed with the
>
> NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9626-pkg1.run and what a beautiful desktop.
>
> Download from ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-9626/ the
> drivers from here.
>
> To get it to work I drop to runlevel 3
>
> sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9626-pkg1.run just to launch the script.
>
> <alt+f2> and login as root
>
> cd /tmp/selfgzXXXX/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9626-pkg1/usr/src/nv
>
> comment out config.h in nv-linux.h
>
> save and exit
>
> Switch back to script
>
> <alt+f1>
> Continue with the script.
>
> Reboot.
>
> Yes... I know FC6  is not released until tomorrow.

FYI, what you wrote above has been posted on the nvnews forum for a
few weeks now.

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