Nvidia Drivers for Fedora 9

John Thompson johndthompson at gmail.com
Sat Oct 4 19:10:14 UTC 2008


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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.

The advantage of using the NVidia installer is that when you need to
install a new kernel you don't have to wait for livna to update their
RPMs. Just re-run the installer and it will build new modules to match
your new kernel.

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- -John (john at os2.dhs.org)
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