nVidia and ATi drivers in Fedora 2

Christopher A. Williams chrisw01 at privatei.com
Mon May 3 12:49:11 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 02:36, 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

How did you do it? I'm sure lots of us here, myself included, would be
interested in knowing. Did you re-compile the kernel? A step-by-step
list would be great. My GeForce 5600 and I would both thank you.

Cheers,

Chris

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