Re: How to update nvidia module, FC3?

From: Ohmster (notareal_at_emailaddress.com)
Date: 07/17/05 

Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 19:31:24 GMT

Michael Heiming <michael+USENET@www.heiming.de> wrote in news:vjkpq2-
t3n.ln1@news.heiming.de:

> 5. Check if things are setup probably:
>
> depmod -a
> modprobe nvidia
> dmesg
> init 3 && init 5
> # Login as user to X.
>
> 6. Checkout 'glxinfo' and 'glxgears' for expected results.
>
> Wasn't really difficult? ;-) How many FPS does glxgears show?

Mike,

I did all of this stuff, see post above, it worked, thank you.

Uh, I still have the symlinks pointing to an older kernel in /usr/src/.
Shouldn't that be updated to reflect the newest kernel or is this not
important? The up2date applet does give me new kernels quite often, don't
want to have to go through all of this a couple of times a month, though.

[ohmster@ohmster src]$ ls -la
total 40
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Jul 17 02:07 .
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 May 7 22:31 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Jul 16 20:50 linux-2.4 -> linux-
2.4.20-8
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 Jul 16 20:49 linux-2.4.20-8
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 14 00:03 linux-igd
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 May 7 22:52 redhat
drwxrwxr-x 7 ohmster ohmster 4096 May 13 23:51 upnpsdk-1.0.4
drwxr-sr-x 2 1000 1000 4096 Apr 16 2002 wondershaper-1.1a
[ohmster@ohmster src]$

P.S.
What is a good line wrap length for posting in Usenet? I have mine set to
76 characters (Xnews) but it will go as far as 78, see screencap here:
http://www.ohmster.com/~ohmster/screencaps/snap070.gif

Long lines in posts like this always get wrapped and it is hard to tell
when to continue a line of instructions like you gave me. I like the way
you used the reverse backslash "\" to indicate that a line continues.
This helped a lot with your instructions. Good looking out. 

-- 
~Ohmster
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