Thanks for all of your mail!  This is *exactly* the situation I was fearing.
Jeremy said that installing from the source tarball would work, but I don't
understand why - is it because the driver would be linked against different
libraries if compiled under 7.3 rather than 7.2 (which NVIDIA does have on its
website)?

Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of BG
> Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 11:09 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Valhalla on NVIDIA yet?
>
>
> Mine either, also... er, I mean me too.  I tried to install the NVIDIA
> drivers from their website which worked perfectly in 7.2, but while trying
> to install their kernel driver under 7.3 a dependancy on the RH 7.2 kernel
> reared it's ugly head.  I installed it anyway with --nodeps option of rpm,
> but now I can't startx and I can't get the driver removed.  When I try to
> remove it with rpm -e it says the package is not installed.
>
> What is a brave, ever venturing and enthusiastic RH user trying to remain on
> the cutting edge to do now?
>
> Bill
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ward William E DLDN
> > Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 10:14 AM
> > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> > Subject: RE: Valhalla on NVIDIA yet?
> >
> >
> > And I'm the opposite; my GF2 MX does NOT work.
> > In fact, 7.3 UNINSTALLED the driver for it when
> > I did an upgrade from 7.2 to 7.3
> >
> > Bill Ward
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 12:05 PM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: RE: Valhalla on NVIDIA yet?
> > >
> > >
> > > I have a GeForce2 MX that works fine in 7.3.
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Chris Daft [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 11:01 AM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Valhalla on NVIDIA yet?
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi folks,
> > >
> > > Searching the archives I see lots of commentary on using
> > > NVIDIA hardware
> > > with
> > > RH.  I got it working after learning that the NVIDIA driver
> > > modifies the
> > > kernel,
> > > and installing the driver from their website.  But they have
> > > no 7.3 driver
> > > there.  Has anyone got an NVIDIA card to work with the new release?
> >
> >
> >
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