nvidia driver question

[thedogfarted]

It's ok now, i used nvidia's 1.0-5336 driver & kernel module from 
atrpms. I don't know why, but it yelled that it has something like 
atrpm-config or something like that in deps and it conflicts with my 
version of yum. However, workaround was very simple - renaming yum.conf 
to yum.conf.backup or whatever, let atrpm-config or whatever install 
it's own version of yum.conf, and thed replace it with the old one.

At least i have the header files! (But i miss livna's config utility)

The link was broken but i found the page - nothing more than flame. And 
this "bug" was fixed before 5336. I found more useful information in 
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=14

FC1 and other Linux users with nvidia cards and drivers should read it 
time after time. Luckily i haven't experienced problems discussed there yet.

Daniel Stonier wrote:
> There's a detailed explanation of the redhat/nvidia state of affairs atm at
> 
> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/long_list/cgi?buglist=110124
> 
> If that fails, just do a google for "redhat bugzilla nvidia".
> 
> Cheers,
> Daniel.
> 
> On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 17:54:59 +0200, thedogfarted <thedogfarted at inbox.lv> 
> wrote:
> 
>> I wonder if i should  install nvidia display driver form nvidia.com 
>> instead of my current driver from livna.
>>
>> i have now installed following rpms:
>>
>> nvidia-glx-1.0.4620-0.lvn.18.1
>> kernel-module-nvidia-2.4.22-1.2174.nptl-1.0.4620-0.lvn.18.1
>> nvidia-glx-devel-1.0.4620-0.lvn.18.1
>>
>> and now i've downloaded NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run
>>
>> The reason why i want to install is that i still have Mesa's GL header 
>> files in /usr/include. If i remember correctly, nvidia's install 
>> replaced them with their own, and this is what i need.
>>
>> Why they weren't replaced when i installed driver from rpm? Can i 
>> safely just get the nvidia's GL header files and replace the existing 
>> ones?
>>
>>
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