LCD Monitors and Fedora
William M. Quarles
quarlewm at jmu.edu
Sun Nov 28 06:59:27 UTC 2004
As I recall, nVIDIA has pre-built drivers for most distributions. I
think that some are included, and if it can't find one that it is
included, it attempts to download the appropriate driver from the web
server. It uses compilation as a last resort. You're probably ahead of
their game every time that you download the package.
Peace,
William
Michael J. Pawlowsky wrote:
>
> nv didn't do it at all for me... I downloaded the kernel source and
> with the Driver tool on their site (
> http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-6629.html ) it
> compiled the nvidia driver for me.
>
> The hassle is everytime you upgrade kernels, you need to redo this
> process. I've been doing it for since RedHat 7.3 and way too many
> kernels! :-)
>
> Every so often (like this time) you need to update their tool. I was
> getting the error it could not find the kernel source. And then I
> updated the tool and it compiled no problem. Well one warnnig abouf not
> being compatible with another driver in the kernel vesatab or something
> like that. I looked and I did not see it loaded so I ignored that warning.
>
>
> Mike
>
>
>
> William M. Quarles wrote:
>
>> Mike
>>
>> Just curious, are you using the official nVIDIA DRI-ish drivers, or
>> just the generic nv server?
>>
>> Peace,
>> William
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