[linux-audio-user] [OT] Getting Nvidia drivers to work with CCRMA

[Tim Howard]

On 12/18/06, Lee Revell <rlrevell at joe-job.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 18:43 -0800, Tim Howard wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> >    I have a Radeon 9200SE video card in my computer which is running
> > FC5 + CCRMA.  Does anyone know where I can find instructions on how to
> > install drivers for this without damaging my Linux installation?
> >
> >    Also, since I'm using a "non-standard" kernel (CCRMA's
> > rt-something), does that mean I will have to recompile the kernel, or
> > what?
> >
> > Thanks for any help!
> >
>
> See http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIRadeon.  There should be no need
> to recompile the kernel or use a binary-only driver.
>
> Are you sure the distro did not already install the correct driver?
>
> Lee
>

No, but I'm at work right now, and my Linux box is at home.

Now that I look at the contents of the FC5 distro, I see that there is
a "xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.5.7.3-4.i3..>" RPM, which I'm guessing would
contain the DRI module that I need?

-TimH