Re: nvidia 6600 video cards



In comp.os.linux.hardware Chris Cox <notccox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
Shearer wrote:
If I buy a nvidia 6600 or 6600 gt video card, driver installation is
complex?



If you want accelerated 3D, you install the Linux driver from
Nvidia. You'll need enough of the Linux kernel sources or headers
to allow the Nvidia driver to build. I just usually install the

With FC5, one's you did install the rpm with the livna yum
repository config file or put it in manually, it's just (as root
or use sudo):

yum install kmod-nvidia

http://rpm.livna.org/

Tough you have to modify xorg.conf to suite your needs,
instructions can be found at your favorite search engine.

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