nVidia drivers and xorg

Bob Arendt rda at rincon.com
Wed May 18 16:12:49 UTC 2005


Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On 5/17/05, Paul <paul at all-the-johnsons.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>I've installed the nVidia drivers on my FC4t3 box and have altered
>>xorg.conf so that dri is hashed out and nv is replaced with nvidia.
>>
>>Only problem is that if I reboot, dri reappears and nv replaces nvidia.
>>
>>Is there anyway to stop this from happening?
> 
> I assume you mean.. you installed the nvidia drivers directly from
> nvidia using nvidia's installer.
> 
> Nothing from fedora core should be re-writing the Xconfig file on boot
> like that.
> 
Is this a Dell box with dkms on it?  I recall some frustration once
when Dell's dkms kept reverting my nvidia install to the one shipped
on the box rather the one I just installed.  The trick was to update
the dkms files so it installed the correct version.
-Bob Arendt




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