TNT2 M64 bult-in driver in Fedora Core 4 is newer than Nvidia driver 1.0-7174 ?

[Christoph Wickert]

Am Montag, den 19.09.2005, 07:09 +0800 schrieb Wong Kwok-hon:
> On 9/19/05, Christoph Wickert <christoph.wickert at gmx.de> wrote:
> > Am Montag, den 19.09.2005, 05:53 +0800 schrieb Wong Kwok-hon:
> > > Hello!
> > >
> > > I want to update the display driver for my TNT2 M64 in fedora Core4
> > > but Only Nividia 7174 can do that.
> > 
> > Install the nvidia-glx-legacy package from rpm.livna.org. Assuming
> > livna.org stable repo is included in your yum setup it's as simple as
> > 
> > yum install kernel-module-nvidia-legacy-`uname -r`
> > 
> > restart your xserver afterwards.
> > 
> > > By the way, do the Fedora Core 4
> > > bult-in driver is newer ? And which one is faster in performance ?
> > 
> > the nv driver from xorg works well but has no 3D acceleration at all.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Wong Kwok Hon
> > >
> > Christoph
> 
> Thanks and Do I need to reinstall it after kernel update and do the
> yum auto resolve the 'uname-r' ?
> 

You only need to install an updated kernel-module for your new kernel if
there is no update to the nvidia-glx-legacy package itself.
This is not done by yum when you update the kernel because the kernel
does no depend on the kernelmodule.
With uname -r you will always get the correct module after a kernel
update.

> 
> 
> Wong Kwok Hon
> 
Regards, 

Christoph