[ALUG] Fedora 7, not 100% stable, video drivers?

Chris G cl at isbd.net
Fri Sep 28 11:43:54 BST 2007


On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 11:02:00AM +0100, Chris G wrote:
> 
> The video hardware is Nvidia and Fedora 7 isn't using the same Nvidia
> drivers that Slackware did.  With Slackware I had to compile/install
> the Nvidia driver myself (downloaded from Nvidia) but the Fedora
> installation recognised the card and has drivers, the xorg.conf file
> says:-
> 
>     Section "Device"
>             Identifier  "Videocard0"
>             Driver      "nv"
>     EndSection
> 
> Does anyone know if there are any stability problems with the "nv"
> driver?  Would I be better off getting the latest Nvidia supplied one?
> I'll do some Google searching on this front but any comments would be
> welcome.
> 
I have installed the proprietary nvidia drivers so lets see if that
fixes the problem.

-- 
Chris Green




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