livna vs. nvidia

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 4/19/06, Wong Kwok-hon <kwokhon at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/20/06, Paul Lemmons <paul.lemmons at tmcaz.com> wrote:
> >  Thanks, It has been a while since I had installed the drivers. Fortunately
> > I still had the original installer on a thumb drive. I ran it with
> > "--uninstall". It complained a little but did succeed. I rebooted and sure
> > enough, all I got was a login prompt; No GUI. I yum installed the
> > kernel-module-nvidia... package and rebooted again, just for fun, and
> > everything came up.
> >
> >  Thank you all for your assistance!
> >
> >
> >  On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 10:54 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> >  Use the --uninstall option.
> >
> > On 4/19/06, Paul Lemmons <Paul.Lemmons at tmcaz.com> wrote:
> > > Ok... this was a scary article...
> > >
> > > It does lead to another question though. I do have the drivers from the
> > > vendor installed. Do I need to uninstall them before I install the livna
> > > version? If so, how?
> > >
>
> As I tried yesterday, the Nvidia driver download from Nvidia 8756 putt
> into a path /usr/X11R6/lib which is wrong and X11 in Fedora Core 5 is
> renamed which is /usr/lib/xorg/modules and some path changed. So If u
> install the Nvidia driver from Nvidia site which is faster than livna
> but need to put it into right path by manual or making a symbolic link
> to it. I have tried and it also work...

None of the symlinks are neccesary.  See:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=68681


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