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
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Alex Makhlin makhlina@gmail.com 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 me to the write direction?
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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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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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
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.
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 rather than tarballs because of the database. But, there are always exceptions.
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!
I had been installing the drivers manually, until it dawned on me to check Livna. I'm just getting used to Fedora having come over from SuSE.
2008/10/5 Jerry Feldman gaf@blu.org:
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 rather than tarballs because of the database. But, there are always exceptions.
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!
I had been installing the drivers manually, until it dawned on me to check Livna. I'm just getting used to Fedora having come over from SuSE.
-- Jerry Feldman gaf@blu.org Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846
So Suse / OpenSuse has no 3rd party repo's for things like nvidia, non-free ( e.g. MPEG, etc ) packages ?
On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 23:30 +1100, Jesus Jr M Salvo wrote:
2008/10/5 Jerry Feldman gaf@blu.org:
On 10/04/2008 10:58 AM, Alex Makhlin wrote:
So Suse / OpenSuse has no 3rd party repo's
Certainly, they have.
for things like nvidia,
see http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA
non-free ( e.g. MPEG, etc ) packages ?
e.g. http://packman.links2linux.org
Ralf
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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.
The advantage of using the NVidia installer is that when you need to install a new kernel you don't have to wait for livna to update their RPMs. Just re-run the installer and it will build new modules to match your new kernel.
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- -John (john@os2.dhs.org)
On Sat, 2008-10-04 at 14:10 -0500, John Thompson wrote:
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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.
The advantage of using the NVidia installer is that when you need to install a new kernel you don't have to wait for livna to update their RPMs. Just re-run the installer and it will build new modules to match your new kernel.
Better yet, use akmod-nvidia from Livna, which will build you a custom RPM if the Livna one isn't ready when you update your kernel.
-Chris
Chris Tyler wrote:
On Sat, 2008-10-04 at 14:10 -0500, John Thompson wrote:
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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.
The advantage of using the NVidia installer is that when you need to install a new kernel you don't have to wait for livna to update their RPMs. Just re-run the installer and it will build new modules to match your new kernel.
Better yet, use akmod-nvidia from Livna, which will build you a custom RPM if the Livna one isn't ready when you update your kernel.
-Chris
Freshrpms uses dkms to do the same thing.
I have used the Freshrpms nvidia driver and I don't have the issue of getting a new kernel and having to wait until Livna gets a new rpm.
dkms creates the new module on reboot.