Re: New Nvidia card

On 20/06/17 11:47, Dave Pawson wrote: > > On 20 June 2017 at 11:41, Reindl Harald <h.reindl(a)thelounge.net&gt; wrote: > >>> Beg to differ (not what I saw? / I misunderstood your comment?) >>> The file is >>> 75096990 Jun 20 11:02 NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-375.66.run >>> >>> from http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/118290 >>> >>> (hence my question re 'magic' as you describe it (and I'd agree) >>> the integration of of nvidia driver and dnf package from rpmfusion >>> ) >>> >>> Does rpmfusion wrap this driver and update/download it.. or should I >>> install it >>> from the .run file above, then let akmod associate it with my kernel? >>> I think that is what I understand from >>> https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA#Installing_the_drivers >> >> >> >> how do you come to that conclusion? >> don't touch anything else the dnf > > > The xxx.run file is a shell script which reads... > > if [ "$1" = "-help" -o "$1" = "--help" -o "$1" = "-h" ]; then > echo "" > echo "$0 [options]" > echo "" > echo "This program will install the NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics > Driver for" > echo "Linux-x86_64 375.66 by unpacking the embedded tarball and > executing" > echo "the ./nvidia-installer installation utility." > > > which is not something I could install using dnf? > > (or are we talking at cross purposes?) > > I was trying to understand how the drivver from Nvidia got into my system, > whether by my download or via the rpmfusion dnf install? > > regards > For current nvidia cards dnf should do it all by the rpmfusion magic. See "Installing the drivers", "Current GeForce...." from the page quoted earlier, and wait... You'll have to wait again after any kernel upgrade. If you have previously installed nvidia drivers *not* packaged by rpmfusion it may be more difficult. But I still don't think swapping from your current card will do much - unless perhaps you have an inadequate power supply. On the Fedora list there is a current thread about problems with video editing in linux. There are, as usual, possible IP issues. I don't know how much of it to believe, but h264 support is not as good as that for mpeg2video John _______________________________________________ rpmfusion-users mailing list -- rpmfusion-users(a)lists.rpmfusion.org To unsubscribe send an email to rpmfusion-users-leave(a)lists.rpmfusion.org