Where is akmod-nvidia-96xx????

[twohot]

Got F15 installed on on old P4 box. Its got a Geforce4 MX4000 card. Rpmfusion has info on the driver (akmod-nvidia-96xx) but I can't find it on the repos.

What happened?
What do I do next?

[DBelton]

There isn't one for F15, at least not yet. (Not sure if nvidia is going to update the driver, either)

the 96xx driver doesn't support the newer version of the xserver that F15 has.

You are pretty much going to have to use the nouveau driver for now. It seems to have come a long way and on a few of my machines, it works better than the nvidia drivers do.

[twohot]

There isn't one for F15, at least not yet. (Not sure if nvidia is going to update the driver, either)

the 96xx driver doesn't support the newer version of the xserver that F15 has.

You are pretty much going to have to use the nouveau driver for now. It seems to have come a long way and on a few of my machines, it works better than the nvidia drivers do.

Well in some machines but not in others ... its terrible on three of my machines (running Geforce 7200 ... desktop effects & animations play 4-5secs while you wait). Fortunately I get Gnome-shell running on those and akmod on those sucks pretty much because the DE just freezes ... but this baby (MX4000) is on fallback mode and I'm scared of trying the shell without seeing "oops! something went wrong". I don't even know how to reactivate fallback afterwards so I could use some tips there.

Its my Dad's machine and I've been working on the big guy to try fedora. I refuse to be disgraced. Off to try again ... "pls nouveau make me proud"

[mbratch]

Its my Dad's machine and I've been working on the big guy to try fedora. I refuse to be disgraced. Off to try again ... "pls nouveau make me proud"

+1 *like*

[twohot]

its fallback mode all the way. Nothing else works and I suspect the card is damaged. M$-Windoze crashes on boot on the same box with this card so Linux is doing much better and is staying (finally). Wondering if there are AGP cards with better chips (I think the big guy will be ok with ATI on this machine judging from experience with Geforce 7200 on my machines)

[DBelton]

The "best" nvidia AGP card you will find would be probably a 7300 GT. That's one of the last AGP cards nvidia made. You can find models with 512MB of video ram. I have one here, and it seems to work pretty good with linux and windows. (Don't get the 7300 LE, as I have seen several problems with those running under linux)

ATI stopped making AGP cards about the same time as nvidia, so their top end AGP cards will be in about the same performance range as the nvidia ones.