alan wrote:
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Steven Pasternak wrote:
Hi! I have been using Fedora since core 1, and since core 3, nvidia
has always caused a problem. I always have to jump through hoops to
get it to work. How come? On SuSE 9-10 Nvidia has never caused a
problem. It doesn't complain that the kernel module can't be built or
something weird like that. I was able to get it to work with core 5,
but I had to get a new kernel, recompile an rpm, and install a
boot-script (found out how on fedoraforums.org)!! What is up with that?
It is a lot easier than that. (With the exception of core 5, but I
will get to that.)
First, make sure you have kernel-devel loaded for your current kernel.
("yum install kernel-devel" should work.) You may also need xorg-sdk
as well.
Download the nVIDIA driver from www.nvidia.com.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html
Next, set your default init run level to 3 in /etc/inittab and reboot.
(The driver will not build if X is running.)
Run "sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-8178-pkg2.run" as root. (Yeah, I know,
but it needs to install modules.) Answer the questions as you go.
There is an option that will modify your xconfig for you.
Start X with the "startx" command to test. Should work. When you
know it works, then change /etc/inittab to default to runlevel 5. (Or
not, if you prefer having a bit more control over X loading.)
I have not gotten the nvidia drivers working with the latest FC5
kernel. (I have not tried very hard, to be honest.) There is a symbol
that does not get built. I will have to look on nvidia's forums to
see if there is a workaround. (I assume there is.)
Hope that helps.
Again with the exception of FC5, it is even easier than that. Simply add
the livna repository to yum (rpm -Uvh
http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release5.rpm) and yum install nvidia-glx
kernel-module-nvidia-`uname -r` . In FC5, cause of the kernel symbol
issue, these packages aren't released yet, but when the kernel is
updated, livna will release such packages (though I believe under a
different name, so as to be more compliant with Extras naming schemes).
-Dan
