[mythtv-users] How do I install an older nvidia driver on Fedora 10?

[Axel Thimm]

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 12:59:52PM -0700, Andrew Burgess wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 21:04 +0200, Niels Dybdahl wrote:
> 
> > Due to a bug in the newest nvidia driver (v 180 see
> > http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/NVidiaProprietaryDriver#Choppy_video.2FHigh_CPU_Usage), I want to install an older version (e.g v 177). I have my driver from rpmfusion.org, but in that repository there is no older driver compiled for my kernel.
> 
> Atrpms has a bunch for the current fc10 kernel (2.6.27.21-170.2.56):
> 
> nvidia-graphics71.86.07
> nvidia-graphics71.86.08
> nvidia-graphics71.86.09
> nvidia-graphics96.43.09
> nvidia-graphics96.43.10
> nvidia-graphics96.43.11
> nvidia-graphics173.14.15
> nvidia-graphics173.14.16
> nvidia-graphics173.14.17
> nvidia-graphics173.14.18
> nvidia-graphics177.76
> nvidia-graphics177.80
> nvidia-graphics177.82
> nvidia-graphics180.18
> nvidia-graphics180.22
> nvidia-graphics180.29
> nvidia-graphics180.35
> nvidia-graphics180.37
> nvidia-graphics180.41
> nvidia-graphics180.44
> nvidia-graphics180.51
> nvidia-graphics185.13
> 
> BTW I'm having good luck with the bleeding-edge 185 nvidia drivers.
> Atrpms supposedly makes it easy to switch between several installed
> versions without removing current and installing new rpms though I've
> never done it.

yum install nvidia-graphics<driver1> nvidia-graphics<driver2> ...
nvidia-graphics-switch <driverX>
init 3; init 5

:)
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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