FC3 Nvidia Drivers

[Frank Kumro]

Works like a charm. THANK YOU :)


On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 13:11:11 -0500, Jesse Jarzynka
<denisesballs at thecybersource.com> wrote:
> David Mangani wrote:
> 
> 
> > Cyber Source wrote:
> >
> >> 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?.....
> >>
> >> Frank Kumro wrote:
> >>
> >>> 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.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> > 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.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> 
> 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:
> 
> cp -a /dev/nvidia* /etc/udev/devices
> chown root.root /etc/udev/devices/nvidia*
> 
> 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
> 


-- 
Frank
Shenanigans!!