<div>On Jan 11, 2008 1:29 PM, Axel Thimm <<a href="mailto:Axel.Thimm@atrpms.net">Axel.Thimm@atrpms.net</a>> wrote:<br></div>
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<div class="Wj3C7c">On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 01:14:53PM -0500, vamythguy wrote:<br>> On Jan 11, 2008 12:41 PM, Axel Thimm <<a href="mailto:Axel.Thimm@atrpms.net">Axel.Thimm@atrpms.net</a>> wrote:<br>><br>> > On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 10:56:43PM -0500, vamythguy wrote:
<br>> > > Axel, I absolutely appreiate your efforts. Is waiting the best path?<br>> ><br>> > No, because the packages are up since some time now.<br>> ><br>> > > On Jan 10, 2008 6:30 PM, vamythguy <
<a href="mailto:vamythguy@gmail.com">vamythguy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > ><br>> > > > If my $KVER = 2.6.23.12-52.fc7, what yum command do I use to install<br>> > the<br>> > > > nVidia drivers from ATrpms?
<br>> ><br>> > --<br>> > Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net<br>> ><br>> > _______________________________________________<br>> > mythtv-users mailing list<br>> > <a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">
mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br>> > <a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users" target="_blank">http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br>> ><br>> ><br>> For a 6600GT on an AMD64, with kernel
2.6.23.12-52.fc7, which package do I<br>> want?<br><br></div></div>I'll answer more generic so other users will be able to read this in<br>the archives.<br><br>There are currently three supported driver families, "latest", 71xx
<br>and 96xx. All of them have the list of cards in their repsective<br>READMEs, which are part of the packages or can be read online:<br><br><a href="http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/169.07/README/index.html" target="_blank">
http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/169.07/README/index.html</a><br><a href="http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/71.86.01/README/readme.txt" target="_blank">http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/71.86.01/README/readme.txt
</a><br><a href="http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/96.43.01/README/index.html" target="_blank">http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/96.43.01/README/index.html</a><br><br>The 6600 cards are mentioned in the 71xx family. This is not to say
<br>that 96xx or the latest won't work - often they do for some of the<br>functionality required and you don't notice any issues. So at the end<br>you need to just try them out all and see what works best.<br><font color="#888888">
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<div>yum -y install nvidia-graphics100.14.19-kmdl-$KVER</div>
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<div>Automagically got X working on my 6600GT and x86_64 kernel 2.6.23.12-52.fc7.<br><br></div>