F7 nvidia-96xx driver problem

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 24 July 2007, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
>On 7/24/07, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
>> 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.
>
>100.14.11 doesn't support his GPU.  He needs to use 1.0-9639.

I missed that part, sorry.

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