On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Trevor Smith wrote:
> I have done an install on an 8100 with Geforce 2 Go and My roomate has
> done it on an 8200 with GF4 Go. In both situations we had to download
> the source tarballs from nvidia and compile from source. The source
> rpm's would NOT work for the kernel drivers but the standard GLX rpm did
> work fine.
I've never had any problems rebuilding the kernel SRPM. (Not an
Inspiron, but I can't see what the difference in building would be.)
> go to Nvidia's driver dowload page and grab the source and follow the
> instructions from the pdf at the bottom of the page. It also has the
> info for making the changes to the XF86config.
>
> MET wrote:
> > And finally, I'm according to my login prompt I'm running on i686
> > architecture, and I see a NVIDIA_kernel rpm for that, but I don't see a
> > NVIDIA_GLX rpm for that. What did you do?
Use the i386 one. The ix86 RPMs are upward compatible, but not downward
compatible.
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