On Saturday 04 October 2008, Alex Makhlin wrote: >Jerry Feldman wrote: >> The advantage to using livna is that they are included in RPM >> packages. If you get them directly from Nvidia, when you get an >> updated kernel you would have to reinstall the drivers. >> IMHO: It is usually better to use RPM packages rather than tarballs >> because of the database. But, there are always exceptions. >> >> On 10/03/2008 02:41 PM, gary artim wrote: >>> check out http://rpm.livna.org -- gary >>> >>> On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Alex Makhlin <makhlina@xxxxxxxxx> >>> >>> wrote: >>>> http://rpm.livna.org/rlowiki/Hi, >>>> >>>> I own an HP dv9208nr laptop and am looking for the latest Nvidia >>>> drivers. I >>>> had a diver for it before but had to reinstall my system and now I >>>> am having >>>> trouble finding the latest driver and utilities. Can anyone point me >>>> to the >>>> write direction? >>>> >>>> Thank you >>>> >>>> -- >>>> fedora-list mailing list >>>> fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx >>>> To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >>>> Guidelines: >>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > >Thanks allot!! You really answered my question with this. I spent all >day yesterday trying to install Nvidia's driver with no success. Now the >driver is working great! > >Thank again, >Alex Advice: Make a backup of the mbr of your boot drive and save it on a usbkey where it can be readily available for recovery. I have had LSN0 of my boot drive wiped clean, zeroed out completely, twice in the last year while running the nvidia binaries. And a recent, only 12 hour duration, session of running it again with a Gforce3 6200 card resulted in an hours worth of e2fsck'ing of the boot drive (its 500GB) when the ati card and driver were reinstalled & rebooted to. I have had no such problems with an ATI based card and the kernels radeon driver. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Neutrinos have bad breadth. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
