Nvidia Drivers for Fedora 9

Alex Makhlin makhlina at gmail.com
Sat Oct 4 14:58:57 UTC 2008


Jerry Feldman wrote:
> The advantage to using livna is that they are included in RPM 
> packages. If you get them directly from Nvidia, when you get an 
> updated kernel you would have to reinstall the drivers.
> IMHO: It is usually better to use RPM packages rather than tarballs 
> because of the database. But, there are always exceptions.
>
> On 10/03/2008 02:41 PM, gary artim wrote:
>> check out http://rpm.livna.org -- gary
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Alex Makhlin <makhlina at gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>  
>>> http://rpm.livna.org/rlowiki/Hi,
>>>
>>> I own an HP dv9208nr laptop and am looking for the latest Nvidia 
>>> drivers. I
>>> had a diver for it before but had to reinstall my system and now I 
>>> am having
>>> trouble finding the latest driver and utilities. Can anyone point me 
>>> to the
>>> write direction?
>>>
>>> Thank you
>>>
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>
Thanks allot!! You really answered my question with this. I spent all 
day yesterday trying to install Nvidia's driver with no success. Now the 
driver is working great!

Thank again,
Alex




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