[LUNI] Switching distros yet again

[Mike Scott]

I couldn't get the closed drivers to work at all.  I could never get it
to load properly.
Whe I tried the nVidia drivers from the distro, it would tell me X
couldn't start and bounce me back to the open drivers.
There were some suggestions for manual install (from this list) which I
then took to the nv forums.
Each time I got a little farther, but still no success.

The final message coming out of yum was:

Here's the thread, if you are interested.

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=108587

- Mike Scott

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [LUNI] Switching distros yet again
> From: Gene Jannece <sil at sevatech.com>
> Date: Sun, March 16, 2008 10:39 pm
> To: Linux Users Of Northern Illinois - Technical Discussion
> <luni at luni.org>
> 
> 
> What was the issue you were having with the nvidia drivers in fedora 8?
> Were the drivers the closed drivers?