On Saturday 04 October 2008, 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 rather than tarballs because of the database. But, there are always exceptions.
On 10/03/2008 02:41 PM, gary artim wrote:
check out http://rpm.livna.org -- gary
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Alex Makhlin makhlina@gmail.com
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 having trouble finding the latest driver and utilities. Can anyone point me to the write direction?
Thank you
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Thanks allot!! You really answered my question with this. I spent all day yesterday trying to install Nvidia's driver with no success. Now the driver is working great!
Thank again, Alex
Advice:
Make a backup of the mbr of your boot drive and save it on a usbkey where it can be readily available for recovery. I have had LSN0 of my boot drive wiped clean, zeroed out completely, twice in the last year while running the nvidia binaries. And a recent, only 12 hour duration, session of running it again with a Gforce3 6200 card resulted in an hours worth of e2fsck'ing of the boot drive (its 500GB) when the ati card and driver were reinstalled & rebooted to.
I have had no such problems with an ATI based card and the kernels radeon driver.