Keith Powell wrote:
On Sunday 30 April 2006 2:39 pm, Bart Couvreur wrote:
Hey Keith,
welcome to Fedora!
To install nvidia drivers:
# yum install kmod-nvidia
Cheers,
Bart
Hello Bart, and thanks for the welcome.
I tried your method of installing the nvidia driver, but it didn't
work. I must have done something wrong but, because of my lack of
knowledge about Fedora, didn't know what.
For information, I went into text mode and typed
yum install kmod-nvidia.
I got:
Loading "installonly plugin"
Setting up Installation process
Setting up repositories
core
updates
extras
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Parsing package install arguments
No match for argument: kmod-nvidia
Nothing to do.
I tried editing the xorg.conf file to change the driver from "nv" to
"nvidia", but that didn't work.
While typing this post, I have just realised that I hadn't installed
the livna repository, so I am wondering if that was the problem.
However, when I did it Stuart's way, installing livna first, it has
worked!
I think I have really messed this up, but I am learning fast. :-(
Many thanks again to you both.
Cheers
Keith
You haven't messed anything up, just tried to do things out of order.
For one:
The kmod-nvidia package _is_ in livna, so if you don't have that
repository installed, yum can't find it. :)
And secondly, without that package installed, putting "nvidia" as the
driver name will not work because it refers Xorg to the nvidia binary
drivers, which you didn't have installed.
No harm done.
-Dan
