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Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Fri Jan 11 03:37:53 UTC 2008


Duane Clark wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>     Well of course I have the Nvidia driver and have used it on about 
>> 5 or 6 new kernels with success. But I didn't know I should tell it 
>> not to update gtk stuff. I will try it tonight when this F7 comes up 
>> stupid without a good kernel driver. But this time I will make sure 
>> all we do is make a new kernel driver. See what happens as I drop 
>> back to init 3 without any  GUI running.
>
> Using the livna repackaged nvidia driver, there is no need to worry 
> about that; you won't need to "make a new kernel driver", and you 
> won't need to drop back to init 3 to install it. It is just an ordinary:
>  yum install kmod-nvidia
>
> And it will automatically get updated when livna updates the driver, 
> assuming you have the Fedora yum update thingy (I forget what it is 
> called) running.
>
    I must have that thingy because it is fine with the new kernel.

Karl


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