Nvidia drivers (was - Re: why have I lost gedit???

[Marc Schwartz]

On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 11:35, Elton Woo wrote:
> On September 27, 2003 11:10 pm, Mitch Anderson <Mitch Anderson 
> <mitch at metauser.net>> wrote:
> > > > But agreed, don't mask the problem with IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH, but rather
> > > > set CC=gcc32 and build the driver.
> > >
> > > So I should re-run the Nvidia drivers, but this time
> > > instead of "export IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH=1", I should do:
> > > "set CC=gcc32". Is this the correct syntax?
> >
> > I did both... they seemed to work, but I'm still having stability
> > problems.  I would think CC=gcc32 is the best option.
> 
> Using "set CC=gcc32" *or* "export CC=gcc32" the complie 
> fails. Since it works with "IGNORE...", I guess I'll just leave
> it at that.
> 
> Elton ;-)


FWIW,

There was a post yesterday on the users list:

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2003-September/msg00334.html

with a solution that I tried and it works for me (Dell i8200 w/ 64 Mb
GeForce4). You then need to make the typical changes to XF86Config as
per routine.

Simply put, use:

./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run --add-this-kernel

and then:

./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2-custom.run

Thanks to Rodrigo.

HTH,

Marc