On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 06:41:20AM -0800, Hardy Merrill wrote: > Axel, > > I now have this in my /etc/yum.repos.d/dag.repos file: > > [dag] > name=Dag APT Repository > baseurl=http://dag.freshrpms.net/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearch/dag/ > > http://dag.atrpms.net/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearch/dag/ > > http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/freshrpms/pub/dag/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearch/dag/ > enabled=0 > enabled=1 > gpgcheck=1 That's not ATrpms, that's DAG (Dag Wieers' repo). Where does the above come from? Perhaps you also have a /etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo. > Now what yum commands do I need to execute to get yum to install the > nvidia rpm's? And what exact nvidia rpm's do I need? yum install kernel-module-nvidia-graphics6629-`uname -r` nvidia-graphics6629 picks driver version 6629. There are nine driver versions available, in case the latest does not perform as required. > Thanks. > > Hardy Merrill > > > > On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 07:58:36PM +0100, Alexander > > Dalloz wrote: > > > Am Mi, den 17.11.2004 schrieb Alexandre Cavalcante > > Alencar um 19:46: > > > > > > > I was reading this list and others forums about > > the nVIDIA binary > > > > drivers version 1.0-6629 and Fedora Core 3, and > > tried the presented > > > > solutions, but none worked to me. > > > > > > > > When I go to runlevel 5, the nVIDIA driver loads > > and it's show the Logo, > > > > but at this this, I can see a mouse cursor and > > it hangs, I can move the > > > > mouse (slowly), but the GDM/KDE/XDM don't show > > up. > > > > > > > > Coping /dev/nvidia* to /etec/udev/devices and > > changing it's owner to > > > > root and group to root don't resolve the problem > > as said (this was done > > > > with the 6110 version, I think). > > > > > > > > I've tried a solution showed by Alexander > > Dalloz, that patch the nv.c > > > > file, and it with the above, but not worked too. > > > > > > This patch is only needed for the older driver > > version 6111. > > > > > > > Alexandre Cavalcante Alencar > > > > > > Which graphics card do you use? There seems to be > > problems with older > > > card types like TNT2. You then will have to run > > the older driver > > > version. > > > > rpm packaged nvidia drivers (6629, 6111, 6106) for > > FC3 can be found at > > > > http://atrpms.net/name/nvidia-graphics/ > > > > The drivers have a small buglet still, the /dev > > entries will vanish > > after a reboot. Workaround for now: After package > > installation do > > > > cp -a /dev/nvidia* /etc/udev/devices > > chown root.root /etc/udev/devices/nvidia* > > > > (see also: http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/udev/) > > > > > In general, if the NVidia driver does not work > > with your card model, > > > then you should contact NVidia, because the Red > > Hat folks can't fix > > > anything as it is closed source and not under GPL. > > > ATTACHMENT part 1.2 application/pgp-signature > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > The all-new My Yahoo! - What will yours do? > http://my.yahoo.com > -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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