NVIDIA Drivers and Test 3

[Brian Stretch]

> I downloaded the 5336 driver referred to from the minon.de site. There
> is something there saying this version from NVidia works with kernel
> 2.6. Obviously, it doesn't, or I wouldn't be posting this... :)

Under 32-bit Fedora you have to do a kernel recompile to get rid of 
the 4K stacks patch that nVidia's closed-source driver doesn't like. 
I did a clean build of kernel 2.6.6rc2 (rc3 is out now) using Fedora's
i686 .config as a starting point and that worked for me.  powernow-k8
power management appeared to work, but that's under heavy
revision at the moment so I can see why the Fedora crew would
be hesitant to enable it in the prebuilt kernels.  Hopefully it will be
there in FC2 final? 

Under 64-bit Fedora no kernel recompile is needed, in fact I haven't
managed to successfully build a vanilla 2.6.6rc3 kernel yet.  The minion.de
patched nVidia drivers worked perfectly and I'm able to play 64-bit
UT2004.  I did have to manually add a line to /etc/modprobe.conf
(or whatever the replacement for modules.conf is), see the nVidia
README to find that (or do modprobe nvidia before firing up X). 

Oh, and if UT2004 is segfaulting for you, see here:
https://bugzilla.icculus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1413

I think 64-bit Fedora has reached the tipping point favoring the
migration away from 32-bit, if you can spare the funds to upgrade. 
Very well done guys!