F8 & Freshrpms nvidia-x11-drv-96xx problem

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 12/2/07, Klaus-Peter Schrage <kpschrage at gmx.de> wrote:
> Richard Shaw wrote:
> > I just updated my FC6 server to F8 (replaced not upgraded) and installed
> > the nvidia-x11-drv-96xx driver from Freshrpms which has always worked
> > before and is working right now on my desktop. Both systems are running
> > the 64bit version of Fedora.
>
> Same problem with nvidia-x11-drv-96xx-1.0.9639-1.i386.rpm on my 32bit
> system (antique GeForce2 MX/MX 400 card). I fetched the latest legacy
> driver from nvidia.org (NVIDIA-Linux-x86-96.43.01-pkg1.run.bin) which
> built and runs without any glitches.

That's because 96.43.01 is the driver that you should be using.
1.0-9639 is an *OLDER* driver from the same branch as 96.43.01.  As I
stated as the beginning of this thread, freshrpms is out of date.

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