Nvidia released new video drivers, ver 7174 today

Today (March 31, 2005) Nvidia released it's new video drivers version 7174.

To quote Nvidia:

Linux Display Driver - IA32

Version: 1.0-7174
Operating System: Linux IA32
Release Date: March 31, 2005

Release Highlights

* Fixed performance problem when using AGPGART.
* Fixed support for GeForce2 Integrated GPUs.
* Fixed a workstation graphics stability problem.
* Improved XRandR rotation support.
* Fixed installation problems on some Linux 2.6 kernels.
* Updated documentation

I installed these new drivers on two Fedora Core 3 computers, and they worked GREAT. I got into the console mode (runlevel 3) and un-installed the old Nvidia drivers, then installed the new ones as per Nvidia's instructions using
sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7174-pkg1.run
and it worked on both machines. I don't know what affect the old work around may have on this, chmod this, chown that, etc. but for me it worked great.

Pudge

Sweet. How do you uninstall the old drivers?

Just install the new drivers, the install process uninstalls the old ones.

If you just want to un-install the drivers, from the console mode, as root, enter:
# sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-XXXX-pkg1.run --uninstall

But if you ever uninstall the Nvidia drivers and don't reinstall new Nvidia drivers, make sure to edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file back to the way it was before going back to the Graphical mode (runlevel 5).

Pudge