nvidia driver question

[Gertjan Vinkesteijn]

thedogfarted wrote:

> 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?
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
I got the driver from 
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-5336.html, it is 
called NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run 
<http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-5336/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run> 
I run it and it puts the module in the kernel. This is for my pci TNT2 
card, AGP is already build in the kernel as a module: 
CONFIG_AGP_NVIDIA=y in .config

What does nvidia/nForce has to say?

Package Availability


This package can be found at the NVIDIA web site:

http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp

We strongly urge you to only use software obtained from this website or 
a trusted Linux distribution for your nForce hardware.




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