I cant help with the drivers but...your wife likes linux and plays Unreal..does she 
have sister??
rob

On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 06:39:30 -0600
Steven Spears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Paul:
> 
> Thanks for the tip!
> 
> 
> This was done with the stock kernel. My wife would kill me if I messed with 
> her Linux! She never has any problems and it never has to be shutdown. I was 
> lucky enough to get her to let me do this so she could play Unreal 
> Tournament. 
> 
> I will give this a try and see if it works. 
> 
> Thanks, 
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
> 
> On Tuesday 11 December 2001 09:28 pm, you wrote:
> > This happenned to me as well.  Did you by any chance update her kernel
> > (the kernel module is compiled for the stock kernel).
> >
> > What I did was download the source rpm and then (as root):
> >
> > rpm --rebuild NVIDIA_kernel.src.rpm
> > rpm -ivh /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i686/NVIDIA_kernel...rpm
> >
> > then install the NVIDIA_GLX.rpm
> >
> > -Paul Rodríguez
> >
> > On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 22:09, Steven Spears wrote:
> > > Hello:
> > >
> > > I'm trying to install the new NVidia drivers on my wife's machine and I'm
> > > having a bit of a problem. When I install the rpm for 8.1 it says this:
> > >
> > > Preparing...                ###########################################
> > > [100%] 1:NVIDIA_kernel         
> > > ########################################### [100%] modprobe: Can't locate
> > > module NVdriver
> > >
> > > NVdriver installed successfully
> > >
> > >
> > > I'm using this command: "rpm -ivh NVIDIA*
> > >
> > > Any help or points to the proper location for help would be greatly
> > > appreciated. I've already tried going through the archives to no avail.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Steve
> > >
> > >
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