Re: New Nvidia card

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