Fedora 10 + Nvidia 6100 go fails with proprietary drivers

Denis Leroy denis at poolshark.org
Tue Oct 14 10:57:47 UTC 2008


Denis Leroy wrote:
> Valent Turkovic wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I installed Fedora 10 beta on HP tx1000 and everything worked out of
>> the box except wireless because it is broacom :( I fixed that with
>> loading broadcom firmware.
>>
>> This is my first Nvidia laptop that I have worked on in last few years
>> (all I have worked on have Intel video chips) so I'm not sure what to
>> expect from Nvidia proprietary drivers (and sorry for posting about
>> non open source stuff here).
>>
>> I installed latest kmod-nvidia drivers from livna-development repo but
>> after reboot I don't get to the GDM :(
> 
> The 6100 is not yet supported for Linux:
> 
> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=57791

Oh boy, that was a really old article. I'm sorry.

I think rather you need the legacy 96xx driver, which is packaged by Livna.




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