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villin wrote:
Strange i have had no problem to use them. The old driver was running.
No need to remove it.
Just switch to runlevel 3 and launch the script.
Say that i want to compile and voila. And a few seconds later everything
was ok (Geforce 4 Ti 4200).
No need to reboot. Just had to change the rights on /dev/nvdia0 and
/dev/nvidiactl for my user for playing neverwinter night on Linux.
It seems to be faster and looks better. Maybe it was only my eyes that
were tired yesterday ;-)
For me it is easier to install than before. Newbie will appreciate.
Olivier.
It's easier with the Mandrake RPMS, which do the right thing and setup
either devfs or pam_console to set the perms on /dev/nvidia*, so that
a)it works for any user that logs in
b)it doesn't leave them world writeable.
But everybody don't have club access, buy mandrake Pack or use urpmi source containing Nvdia rpm.
So the first thing they do is to go to the Nvidia web site in order to get their video card working under linux.
So i just wanted to say that Nvidia has provide a better way of installing
their driver for newbie.
I have seen so many people on this list or on expert trying to install them unsuccessfully that i hope
this solution will help them.
Of course i agree with you it's not like we want secure and open source.
Olivier.
