nvidia drivers now available from livna - has anyone tried?

[Eric Mesa]

Up until now I've been holding back from upgrading to F9 (from F8) because
of the lack of nvidia drivers.  My dual-head setup works just fine and I
didn't want to muck about in xorg.conf to fix it up until the new nvidia
driver became available.  So every day I've been trawling the net for news
of Xorg 7.4 to come out or an nvidia driver to be released.  On the Xorg
front, the news is not good.  They've changed their release date from May
2008 to 2008.  Yeah....

But I did come upon this linuxquestions.org thread (
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/fedora-35/fedora-9-nvidia-problem-642024/page2.html)
where, near the bottom they mention that livna now has drivers.  I
checked, and they do.  http://livna-dl.reloumirrors.net/fedora/9/i386/

So I have two questions:
1) Has anyone tried this?  Does it in fact work with Fedora 9's pre-release
Xorg 7.4?  I don't use Compiz, but I do use 3D acceleration for games and
Blender
2) If I were to go the preupgrade route, do I first install the livna Fedora
9 repo package and then preupgrade?  (I have some other livna packages
installed)  Do I preupgrade and then install the latest livna repo package?
Does preupgrade fail with this type of situation?  Should I just do yum
upgrade again?

Thanks!

-- 
Eric Mesa
http://www.ericsbinaryworld.com
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