Re: nvidia problems again....

From: François Patte (Francois.Patte_at_math-info.univ-paris5.fr)
Date: 08/25/04

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To: Phil Dybvig <fedora@ducksoup.afree.net>, For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>

    Selon Phil Dybvig <fedora@ducksoup.afree.net>:

    >
    > Bonjour Francois --
    >
    > >From: François Patte <Francois.Patte@math-info.univ-paris5.fr>
    > >To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>
    >
    > >I installed nvidia stuff according to the livna web page claiming that it is
    > >better to use their rpm package than the "official" nvidia-installer from
    > >nvidia site... So now the problems:
    >
    > Did you try the nvidia installer? It worked fine for me. I'm not sure why
    > the
    > packages compiled for someone else's configuration is supposed to be better.
    >

    I have installed the driver from rpm, because I think that it is easier to
    update the system using yum; in that case, when yum update the kernel I dare to
    think that the modules for that new kernel are also updated at the same time
    (That wasn't the case for kernel xxxx-2199-xxx

    > For help, the linux discussion group at www.nvidia.com is a better place for
    > answers
    > than this list. (That discussion group be accessed from the page for the
    > drivers.)

    Thank you for this hint, I'll post on it. 

    --
François Patte
Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient - Pune - Inde
Université René Descartes - Paris 5
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
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