What package(s) are needed to install nvidia support ?

[John]

Matt Zimmerman wrote:

>On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 05:17:42PM +0800, John wrote:
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>>I've just won a battle to install a DVD burner on Woody; it was far too 
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>Works for me out of the box, zero configuration.  Care to elaborate?
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On woody?
It would not work for me with the standard Woody kernel and standard 
Woody cdrecord. I ended up installing new cdrecord and kernel from 
backports, then when I modprobed ide-scsi it worked.

I forget the model, but it's an LG and does DVD-{+,-,RAM}

I didn't try dvdrecord.

In contrast, on current RHL I would expect kudzu to pop up,organise 
symlinkes and grub.conf, modules.conf etc and I could have got on 
burning CDs and DVDs.

I won't guess whether it would have worked with RHL 7.3 (2.4.28 kernel), 
but it might have; RH may have fixed that up while 7.3 was supported.


One of the CDs I burned is wartylive, so I could see whether that 
detects it and sets it up properly.