nvidia fedora 3

[Danny Ciarniello]

alan wrote:

>On Sun, 14 Nov 2004, mike wrote:
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>>I noticed the kernel source rpm is gone in fedora 3. Does anybody know 
>>how to install nvidia driver without kernel source or some good docs on 
>>how to build kernel using src.rpm i have never done it before.
>>thanks for any help
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>Download the driver from nvidia and run the program.  It does not need the 
>source.  There are good reasons to have it (like getting cardbus to work 
>on an hp zv5000z) but this is not one of them.
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>You will want the next to last version of the driver.  The latest version 
>does not work on Fedora Core 3.  (Or at least not on my system.)
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The latest driver worked just fine for me (I have an old GeForce 2).  
Just follow these instructions:

http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=26260&highlight=nvidia

particularly step 11.

Dan.