[ATrpms-users] Nvidia driver, 5200 card, kernel 2.6.26.6-79.fc9.i686

[John Pilkington]

Axel Thimm wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:37:32PM -0400, Russell Brown wrote:
>> I cannot get the nvidia driver working for my
>> nvidia 5200 card.
> 
> Check out the descriptions of the drivers at
> 
> http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html
> 
> You will find three legacy series. If you click yourself thorugh, you
> will find a list of cards ech driver support. Once you know the series
> just install these drivers (if available). Unfortunately the legacy
> drivers sometimes do not build on the latest kernels and updates are
> less frequent than for the latest driver by nvidia.
> 
> But first find out which series you need, and we can pick up from there.
> 
Unfortunately the lists of hardware for the three drivers are all the 
same: all the links are to

http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_18897.html

But a search on the nvidia site to the card name found in my log file 
confirmed that the 96 series is right for me.  I'm glad about this: it 
works well :-)

See http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_32667.html

John P