New NVIDIA drivers

Niki Guldbrand niki at lunar-linux.org
Wed Jul 30 11:25:07 GMT 2003


To my knowledge the nvidia driver has always been an none X install,
because i tries to rmmod the kernel module if it loaded, and if it can't
then the install fails.

So that isn't new.


Niki

On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 06:55, Nick Hudson wrote:
> Ok I have a nvidia module that is ready the only bad thing is that if
> you are in X it will not install at all.  You have to be out of X for it
> to compile and install correctly.  For now I will put it in crater/x11
> for now.  Please those who have nvidia cards test it and let me know how
> it goes.
> 
> Nick
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 23:16, Nick Hudson wrote:
> > I am on it now... with this release there is a new packaging scheme and
> > I believe 2 modules arent required anymore, its all ran from 1 source
> > file as a .run and you can pass options to it via the command line. 
> > Only bad thing I have found so far is that it will not install if you
> > have a X server up and running.
> > 
> > Nick
> > 
> > On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 14:32, Moritz Heiber wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > FYI, there is a new version of the NVIDIA driver out. Somebody testing
> > > wether its working or not would be very appreciated :-)
> > > 
> > > Bye,
> > > 
> > > Moritz
> > > 
> > > Goto: ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-4496
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