FC3 Nvidia Drivers

[David Mangani]

Frank Kumro wrote:

>Works like a charm. THANK YOU :)
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>On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 13:11:11 -0500, Jesse Jarzynka
><denisesballs at thecybersource.com> wrote:
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>>David Mangani wrote:
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>>>Cyber Source wrote:
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>>>>Jesse knows the answer to this one as he has been putting FC3 through
>>>>some paces, I have yet to play ;(
>>>>He mentioned something to me about it, I know it can be fixed but I
>>>>forget what he said  he had to do, Jesse?.....
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>>>>Frank Kumro wrote:
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>>>>>Has anyone found a way to use the current NVidia drivers with FC3? I
>>>>>have searched the web but I couldnt find anything. Currently the
>>>>>computer freezes boothing with the drivers installed. This seems to be
>>>>>a common problem with FC3 so hopefully someone has figured something
>>>>>out or knows of a fix that I missed.
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>>>I'd like to know this answer as well. I spent most of last night trying
>>>to get the drivers to work. I had no luck either. My machine seemed to
>>>install okay with no errors. Apon rebooting, it froze at configuring
>>>kernel parameters. Hard locked. Oh well. I'm sure it will be worked out.
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>>>Dave
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>>K guys, this drover me nuts for liek a day. It's real simple, and it's
>>even in the release notes. If you go http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/udev/
>>there, you will see it. It's a udev thing, I don't really understand it
>>but basically you have to:
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>>cp -a /dev/nvidia* /etc/udev/devices
>>chown root.root /etc/udev/devices/nvidia*
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>>So that's it. Real simple, but annoying. One thing, make sure you're
>>using the latest 6629 driver, and make sure you do that step AFTER you
>>install the driver. -Jesse
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Yes it does indeed. Worked perfectly.

Thanks again
Dave