Re: Nvidia Drivers for Fedora 9

2008-10-07 Thread Jesus Jr M Salvo
2008/10/5 Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 10/04/2008 10:58 AM, Alex Makhlin wrote: Jerry Feldman wrote: The advantage to using livna is that they are included in RPM packages. If you get them directly from Nvidia, when you get an updated kernel you would have to reinstall the drivers.

Re: Nvidia Drivers for Fedora 9

2008-10-07 Thread Robin Laing
Chris Tyler wrote: On Sat, 2008-10-04 at 14:10 -0500, John Thompson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jerry Feldman wrote: | The advantage to using livna is that they are included in RPM packages. | If you get them directly from Nvidia, when you get an updated kernel you |

Re: Nvidia Drivers for Fedora 9

2008-10-04 Thread Jerry Feldman
The advantage to using livna is that they are included in RPM packages. If you get them directly from Nvidia, when you get an updated kernel you would have to reinstall the drivers. IMHO: It is usually better to use RPM packages rather than tarballs because of the database. But, there are

Re: Nvidia Drivers for Fedora 9

2008-10-04 Thread Alex Makhlin
Jerry Feldman wrote: The advantage to using livna is that they are included in RPM packages. If you get them directly from Nvidia, when you get an updated kernel you would have to reinstall the drivers. IMHO: It is usually better to use RPM packages rather than tarballs because of the

Re: Nvidia Drivers for Fedora 9

2008-10-04 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 10/04/2008 10:58 AM, Alex Makhlin wrote: Jerry Feldman wrote: The advantage to using livna is that they are included in RPM packages. If you get them directly from Nvidia, when you get an updated kernel you would have to reinstall the drivers. IMHO: It is usually better to use RPM packages

Re: Nvidia Drivers for Fedora 9

2008-10-04 Thread John Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jerry Feldman wrote: | The advantage to using livna is that they are included in RPM packages. | If you get them directly from Nvidia, when you get an updated kernel you | would have to reinstall the drivers. | IMHO: It is usually better to use RPM

Nvidia Drivers for Fedora 9

2008-10-03 Thread Alex Makhlin
Hi, I own an HP dv9208nr laptop and am looking for the latest Nvidia drivers. I had a diver for it before but had to reinstall my system and now I am having trouble finding the latest driver and utilities. Can anyone point me to the write direction? Thank you -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: Nvidia Drivers for Fedora 9

2008-10-03 Thread Lonni J Friedman
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Alex Makhlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I own an HP dv9208nr laptop and am looking for the latest Nvidia drivers. I had a diver for it before but had to reinstall my system and now I am having trouble finding the latest driver and utilities. Can anyone point

Re: Nvidia Drivers for Fedora 9

2008-10-03 Thread gary artim
check out http://rpm.livna.org -- gary On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Alex Makhlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://rpm.livna.org/rlowiki/Hi, I own an HP dv9208nr laptop and am looking for the latest Nvidia drivers. I had a diver for it before but had to reinstall my system and now I am