On Monday 01 May 2006 10:07 am, Michael A. Peters wrote: > On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 09:37 +0100, Keith Powell wrote: > > Dan, > > > > Thanks for your reply. > > > > A couple of small points to clarify things. > > > > When I ran "yum install kmod-nvidia" I thought it would possibly > > run a script which would find the package from a repository and > > install it. This 'installation by a script' is used in other > > distributions. Wrong! > > It would have found it if it new where to look. > Install the rpm.livna.org rpm as instructed Stuart Sears > > wget http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-5.rpm > su -c "rpm -ih livna-release-5.rpm" > su -c "yum install kmod-nvidia" > > You shouldn't have to modify the xorg.conf file - it should do it > for you. > Thanks for your reply, Michael. I had got the nvidia driver installed by following Stuart's advice. You're right, I didn't have to edit the xorg.conf file, and was explaining to Dan what I had done wrong. I am very much a Fedora newbie. Cheers Keith
