nvidia for F9

[John Thompson]

On 2008-05-19, Erich Zigler <ezigler at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 5/18/08, John Thompson <john at vector.os2.dhs.org> wrote:
>>
>> Has anyone tried nVidia's beta driver with Fedora9 yet?
>>
>> http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_173.08.html
>> http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_amd64_173.08.html

> Unfortunately the beta driver does not have 3D support so in my case
> it does not do me any good.

Are you certain of this? From my Xorg log file:

	[...]

(II) Module kbd: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
        compiled for 1.3.0, module version = 1.2.2
        Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
        ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 0.7
(II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver  173.08  Wed Apr  2 08:03:25 PST 2008
(II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs

	[...]

(II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized GPU GART.
(II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "1024x768_85+0+0"
(II) Loading extension NV-GLX
(II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA 3D Acceleration Architecture Initialized

	[...]

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John (john at os2.dhs.org)