Nvidia Drivers for Fedora 9

[Jerry Feldman]

On 10/04/2008 10:58 AM, Alex Makhlin wrote:
> 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.
>>
> 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! 
I had been installing the drivers manually, until it dawned on me to 
check Livna. I'm just getting used to Fedora having come over from SuSE.

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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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