nvidia drivers won't build

[Rick Bilonick]

On Sat, 2006-11-04 at 14:51 -0500, David Cary Hart wrote:
> On Sat, 04 Nov 2006 02:07:52 -0500, Rick Bilonick <rab at nauticom.net>
> opined:
> > 
> > Given that X locks up when running xine, mplayer and kaffeine, I
> > tried to install the nvida driver from the web site again. Now it
> > builds and installs although it took several attempts and I also
> > removed the kmod-nvia and related files. So the nvidia driver
> > "works" but mplayer, xine, (and I'm assuming) kaffeine cause the
> > system to completely freeze (so bad you can't get to a console
> > terminal by hitting cntr alt f1) forcing a hard reboot. I never had
> > problems with FC5 and the proprietary driver. It's a good thing
> > this is a test unit and not the working HDTV recorder. At this
> > point I don't see any option but to re-install FC5 and wait to
> > these problems are resolved.
> > 
> Have you tried a lower version. I had no joy until I went down to
> 8776 vs 9626.
> -- 

I'm using 8776 on a 64-bit Athlon system running FC6. I was trying to
see if anyone else has run into this problem.

Rick B.