On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 4:04 AM, Axel Thimm <axel.th...@atrpms.net> wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 10:26 -0400, John Welch wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 9:47 AM, John Welch <jrw3...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hello Axel and others,
>> >
>> > One of my F15 workstations has an older nVidia FX5200 video card.  The
>> > latest drivers for this card are the 173.14.30 series.  I just updated
>> > the system to the latest F15 kernel (2.6.40-4) and it looks like the
>> > kernel modules for my video card are missing.  I looked at the ATrpms
>> > repo first before updating and I *thought* I saw the right kernel
>> > modules, but apparently I wasn't looking at the right thing.
>
> They probably were not there, there was an issue with some of the driver
> versions not building on latest 2.6.x kernels.
>
>> OK, my initial post from August 12th went unanswered.
>
> Sorry about that! :(
>
>> I see from nVidia's site that there is a new driver version
>> (173.14.31) available for my graphics card.  If something is in the
>> works for the ATrpms repo either for this newest driver or the
>> previous one then I'll just sit back an patiently wait.
>
> That one (and the siblings for other legacy drivers) did the job! Thanks
> for pointing it out. I rebuilt the whole lot on the 27th of August, I
> hope they work for you!
> --

Thanks Axel.  The new drivers seem to be working fine.

John

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