nvidia

[Karl Larsen]

Chris Jones wrote:
>   
>> Firstly, Fedora will work out of the box with nvidia cards using the
>> free/OSS drivers. They may not yet properly support 3D, but they do
>> work and give you a graphical interface.
>>
>> At that point, if you do want the extra 3D glits, installing the
>> proprietory NVidia drivers is as trivial as this:
>>
>> As root:
>> 1) rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-7.rpm
>> 2) rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-livna
>> 3) yum install kmod-nvidia
>>     
>
> I almost agree with you. On point 3 you are implicitly assuming that the
> users card is new enough to be support by the latest driver release. Not
> all are. Livna also support various older versions for these cards, and
> so if you need to use these you will need a different kmod.
>
> Chris
>
>   
But if you have a fix for the new cards at least your that much further 
along. And we have no data on how well old hardware will work with new 
drivers.

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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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