nVidia and ATi drivers in Fedora 2

tim+redhat.com at coote.org tim+redhat.com at coote.org
Mon May 3 10:00:11 UTC 2004


You are correct. The 2.6.5 in fc2t3 has additional patches that break the nvidia driver.
I have the same issue with ndiswrapper & nvidia driver. nv is fine, when you can get it working
but I'm stuffed as far as wifi enabling my centrino is concerned :-((

tc

On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 10:36:33AM +0200, Josep Puigdemont wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 10:10, Andy Green wrote:
> <snip>
> > o  Kernel 2.6 is making a change that breaks the current nVidia binary driver.  
> > Because nVidia choose to keep their source secret, nobody can fix this except 
> > nVidia.  FC2 Test 3 has this newer kernel and so the nVidia binary driver 
> > will not work with it until nVidia fix it.  nVidia are apparently saying they 
> > will get around to releasing fixed drivers after FC2 actually comes out.
> > 
> 
> I don't think this is true, as I have kernel 2.6.5 here with nvidia
> binary drivers correctly installed and working.
> 
> /Josep
> 
> 
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