nvidia drivers now available from livna - has anyone tried?

[John Horne]

On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 12:17 -0400, Eric Mesa wrote:
>
> So I have two questions:
> 1) Has anyone tried this?  Does it in fact work with Fedora 9's
> pre-release Xorg 7.4?  I don't use Compiz, but I do use 3D
> acceleration for games and Blender
>
I'm using the 64-bit drivers with no major problems (see previous email
that dpms does not seem to work though). I ran some of the GL
screensavers, and glxgears and they all ran fine.

> 2) If I were to go the preupgrade route, do I first install the livna
> Fedora 9 repo package and then preupgrade?  (I have some other livna
> packages installed)  Do I preupgrade and then install the latest livna
> repo package?  Does preupgrade fail with this type of situation?
> Should I just do yum upgrade again?
> 
Absolutely no idea :-)


John.

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