F8 is a problem

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Sat Jan 19 22:17:02 UTC 2008


On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 11:52 -0700, Karl Larsen wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> > On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 09:00 -0700, Karl Larsen wrote:
> >
> >   
> >>  You never mentioned Nvidia which is a thorn in my side. I can't get Fedora to send me updated Nvidia drivers with each new kernel because I can't find the right rpm on the non-fedora repo called freshrpm.repo. The addition of that repo srewed up my yum to the point I re-loaded F8. 
> >>     I thought it was all my doing that was causing my problems. Nice to 
> >> hear there are deeper problems that are assisting my trouble. Somehow I 
> >> got update to send me the Nvidia drivers along with each new kernel on 
> >> F7. I will stay here.
> >>     
> > ----
> > you don't need freshrpms to get nVidia dynamic installation, livna has
> > them too.
> >
> > with Livna, you only need to run...
> >
> > yum install kmod-nvidia
> >
> > they couldn't make it any easier...
> >
> > http://rpm.livna.org/rlowiki/LivnaSwitcher
> >
> > Craig
> >
> >   
>     Sure they can. It needs to be yum install nvidia :-)
> 
> But thanks I had no idea  that nvidia was on livna. That is good. I will 
> try it on F8. I must have tried it on F7 earlier.
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it works with F7 too

Craig




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