Re:tlug: GeForce and Linux

[Austin Kurahone <austin@example.com>]

Hi,

Graham wrote:
>I recently replaced my old Ati Card with a nice else GeForce256 model, and
>downloaded the nVidia driver for Linux as an .rpm. However, when I go into
>my now VGA-16 KDE, and click on the rpm, it does nothing. I guess this is a
>request for general update info. Thanks.

Note that simon wrote:
>Be fair, I bagged the last one. It's already Friday, and we're not
>going to get three in a week at this rate, so:

Err, by clicking on the RPM, I'm assuming that you have a setup which installs
rpms's when you "click" on them (I  don't use such perversions like file
managers, so in this I plead ignorance.).   If you'd looked at the faq like
nvidia's site tells you to do, you would have noticed installation instructions
detailing what you're supposed to do including a bit about reconfiguring X.

This is assuming that you are indeed running XFree86 4.0, since that's the only
rpm that I can find. (For 3.3.5 there are no rpms visible.)

Class dismissed.

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Austin K. Kurahone
Tokyo Linux Users Group / Green Frog Linux Maintainer / BUILD Linux Project
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