[ATrpms-devel] New nvidia beta available

[John Welch]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 8:51 PM, Paulo Cavalcanti <promac at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 9:41 PM, John Welch <jrw3319 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Paulo Cavalcanti <promac at gmail.com>
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>> > http://people.atrpms.net/~pcavalcanti/srpms/nvidia-graphics177.67-177.67-101.fc8.src.rpm
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>> > --
>> > Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
>> > LCG - UFRJ
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>> Hi Paulo,
>> Curious as to why you chose to package the nVidia 177.67 beta driver.
>> It was only out for a day or so before being superseded by 177.68
>> because of a couple pretty serious bugs; and then 177.68 was only out
>> for a week or so before 177.70 was released, again to fix some more
>> problems.   (Or am I just reading your package wrong?)  I've been
>> anxiously awaiting an ATrpms release of this new beta drivers, hence
>> my question.
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> Hi,
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> I downloaded it from here:
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> http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us
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> It seems to be the latest beta release for me.
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> --
> Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
> LCG - UFRJ
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Hmm, that's odd; 177.67 does seem to be the latest available from the
link you provided.  I hadn't actually tried walking through the steps
on the nVidia site to download the latest beta.  I had been following
the release of this beta series here:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=118602