Build Nvidia driver for Fedora 9, AMD?

Mon May 19 02:45:04 UTC 2008

On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 8:42 PM, Michael Hannon <jm_hannon at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Greetings.  I've been unable to build the latest Nvidia driver for
> Fedora 9, AMD 64.  I've tried building all three variations:
>    NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-169.12-pkg2.run
>    NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-96.43.05-pkg2.run
>    NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-71.86.04-pkg2.run

Fedora 9 ships with a prerelease version of Xorg which Nvidia does not
support. You may try the beta version of the driver at
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=111460 but it does
not include 3D support and may not work on your system.

Another useful thread is located here:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=107725&highlight=fedora

Long story short is if you are looking for 3D support on Fedora 9 it
may be a long wait.