Nvidia Drivers

[Axel Thimm]

On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 09:15:24AM -0400, Daniel Eugenin M. wrote:
> El mar, 25-05-2004 a las 09:00, Bob Chiodini escribió:
> > On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 22:14, Chiheb Djabri wrote:
> > > Hi 
> > > 
> > > I have trouble installing Nvidia Drivers ( I have Nvidia Gforce 2 MX) in
> > > Fedora Core 2. I Installed the latest version but It seems that It
> > > worked only with Xfree but I found a file in /etc/X11 xorg.conf... I
> > > modified it as told in the Readme file but when I reboot computer
> > > nothing happened the screen stay always black. So I had to restore the
> > > file using linux rescue cd...Can Samebody tell me what to do to install
> > > the Drivers please???
> > > 
> > 
> > Wait until Nvidia fixes the driver incompatibility with the FC2 shipped
> > kernel.  Bug Nvidia to update their driver.
> > Bob...
> 
> The kernel .config file should have these lines
> 
>    CONFIG_4KSTACKS = n
>    CONFIG_REGPARM = n
> 
> 
> 
> Or try to install rpm packages from:
> 
> http://atrpms.net/dist/fc2/nvidia-graphics/

These are marked as bleeding [1], as they have the 4kstack issue. But
some people kept reporting their systems would run with the drivers,
and asked for rpms.

[1] From the website: "bleeding packages means asking for trouble!",
    e.g. don't use them ;)
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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