F7 nvidia-96xx driver problem

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Tue Jul 24 16:15:45 UTC 2007


On Tuesday 24 July 2007, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
>Hi folks!
>
>Having an oldish GeForce 4 type video card, I tried to get 3D acceleration,
> so (after some inquiry on the nVidia website) I did
>
># yum install kmod-nvidia-96xx
>
>Yum took the package from Livna, took the appropriate xorg-x11-driver file,
>installed them both successfully. I verified the xorg.conf file that was
>modified in the process, and it looks perfectly sane to me. But, after
> startx all I get is a blank dark screen, and all I can do is to press the
> reset button.

That's an older release, current is NVIDIA-Linux-x86-100.14.11-pkg1.run, 
installed by directly executing the file during bootup.  It Just Works(TM).  
Get it from the nvidia site, much fresher stock.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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