Woo-hoo... no I did not. Thanks for the heads up.
Basically everything seems to be going fine. Basically the trouble is:
Quote:
Both ATI and Nvidia's proprietary video driver installation utilities
replace the Red Hat supplied libGL library with their own libGL.
Nvidia's driver installs a replacement libglx.a X server module,
removing the Red Hat supplied X.Org module in the process.
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Meaning that redhat's DRI won't go ... I note that I have DRI with this card as is. The problem crops up when I change to a different card and/or try to use native fedora drivers.
Interestingly, nvidia don't tell us that installing their driver also installs their libGL. Or, are we supposed to realise that this is required?
So far I've had a couple of unexpected crashes (usually from the screensaver - and that seems to have been due to the settings there for the old drivers) and the CPU running hot (which no longer happens).
I used the nvidia installer because I didn't see the proprietary driver in the yum repos. But then, I'd disabled livna because yum was reporting conflicts involving that repo. Now I enable livna I see the driver I needed.
I'd actually prefer to install the driver via yum, since then it will update with each new distro kernel. From the looks of things... I should be able to uninstall the driver (which swaps the old libGL and libGLX back) and then update everything, and then yum install nvidia... since the "old" libs are in fact quite new still.