{Spam?} ( 3.76) ** fc6, livna, and nvidia

[Josh Coffman]

I don't know why, but I've never been able to get the livna packaged nvidia drivers to work on my laptop (zv5440).
I'd like to use them because of the wierdness of the nvidia install, but xorg won't run when I use the livna package.

I'm running FC6 and would like to enable compiz.
Anyone know a good guide or have some helpful tips?

I'll wait for suggestions, but using the nvidia installer package.

Thanks
-j









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[Zan Lynx]

I noticed recently that the latest nVidia beta drivers (the 9xxx series
that you have to use on Fedora 6), have pushed our R3000 video chips
into legacy support. You'll see the message in the kernel log (dmesg)
when the nvidia driver loads if this is the case for you.

I know that 9742 (64-bit) doesn't work for me.

But about Livna, the directions are right there on their web site.
http://rpm.livna.org/rlowiki/UsingLivna

Then on my Fedora desktop machine (my R3000 runs Gentoo), I did a yum
install kmod-nvidia. I *did* have some trouble with the kernel version
at first, make sure you have the i686 kernel installed (if you're
running 32-bit FC6, that is).

You may also have to yum install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia, I don't remember
if kmod-nvidia sucked that in automatically or not.

Post by Josh Coffman
I don't know why, but I've never been able to get the livna packaged
nvidia drivers to work on my laptop (zv5440).
I'd like to use them because of the wierdness of the nvidia install,
but xorg won't run when I use the livna package.
I'm running FC6 and would like to enable compiz.
Anyone know a good guide or have some helpful tips?
I'll wait for suggestions, but using the nvidia installer package.

[Josh Coffman]

Hmm.. I ran Sabayon Mini for a week, before FC6 came out. It used the nvidia Beta driver to enable AIGLX/Beryl.
I know the 420 Go is an old chip, but seems like the .96* drivers support it.

It may be that I assume yum would pull in the xorg module for the nvidia driver, and it didn't
I'll check that and the kernel log.

Good tips.
Thanks.

----- Original Message ----
From: Zan Lynx <***@acm.org>
To: Linux on AMD64 laptops (Compaq and HP) <***@lists.pcxperience.com>
Sent: Monday, November 20, 2006 3:20:30 PM
Subject: Re: [LinuxR3000] {Spam?} ( 3.76) ** fc6, livna, and nvidia

I noticed recently that the latest nVidia beta drivers (the 9xxx series
that you have to use on Fedora 6), have pushed our R3000 video chips
into legacy support. You'll see the message in the kernel log (dmesg)
when the nvidia driver loads if this is the case for you.

I know that 9742 (64-bit) doesn't work for me.

But about Livna, the directions are right there on their web site.
http://rpm.livna.org/rlowiki/UsingLivna

Then on my Fedora desktop machine (my R3000 runs Gentoo), I did a yum
install kmod-nvidia. I *did* have some trouble with the kernel version
at first, make sure you have the i686 kernel installed (if you're
running 32-bit FC6, that is).

You may also have to yum install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia, I don't remember
if kmod-nvidia sucked that in automatically or not.

Post by Josh Coffman
I don't know why, but I've never been able to get the livna packaged
nvidia drivers to work on my laptop (zv5440).
I'd like to use them because of the wierdness of the nvidia install,
but xorg won't run when I use the livna package.
I'm running FC6 and would like to enable compiz.
Anyone know a good guide or have some helpful tips?
I'll wait for suggestions, but using the nvidia installer package.

--
Zan Lynx <***@acm.org>

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