nVidia Release Driver With Preliminary X.org 1.5 Support

Fedora 9 users rejoice, nVidia has released a driver for Linux that claims "preliminary support" for X.org 1.5.

Here are the release notes of interest for the Dell XPS notebook

• Added preliminary support for X.Org server 1.5
• Improved hotkey switching and power management support on some GeForce 8 notebooks
• Resolved a problem resulting in X startup to fail on some GeForce 8 and 9 systems without swap space
• Restored compatibility with recent Linux 2.6 kernels

The driver hasn't yet made it into the Livna release repo, it should make it into the livna-testing repo soon.

The driver can be installed without using the repo by downloading NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.05.pkg1.run and running it from a terminal after switching to runlevel 3.

If you encounter driver related bugs, please email them to linux-bugs@nvidia.com so that nVidia can continue to improve the Linux driver.

The official nVidia driver release page can be found here.