[SATLUG] FC3 and nVidia FYI

[Eli]

thanks for the headsup. i'm sure a lot of ppl use fedora.

~e


On Fri, November 12, 2004 10:23 am, Kase Saylor said:
> I'm sure no one on this would actually use Fedora, but just in case...
>
> I recently installed FC3 and I'm very happy with the product overall. The
> only "snag" I had was getting the nVidia driver to work. I installed the
> latest driver from nVidia (1.0-6629) and when I started X, everything
> looked
> great. glxgears was reporting over 2600 fps. Life was good. Then I
> rebooted
> and the system locked up! Fortunately I found out that this had to do with
> udev, and after doing the following, everything is working great again:
>
> upgrade udev (I used yum update udev)
> Then
> cp -a /dev/nvidia* /etc/udev/devices
> chown root.root /etc/udev/devices/nvidia*
>
> I just thought I'd post this in the hopes that it might save someone else
> some time if they are trying to use FC3 and nVidia.
>
> Regards,
>
> Kase
>
>
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