On Monday 21 January 2008 9:28:35 pm Karl Larsen wrote: > All testing was with an F8 i386 Fedora. If your using any other Fedora, > like FC6 these steps will not work. > > Question: How can I tell if my computer is using a nVida video card? > > Answer: Check what your computer hardware is. In a root terminal type > lspci and you will have something like this if you have it: > > 00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C51G [GeForce > 6100] (rev a2) > > This is from my F8 computer. If you see no nVidia anywhere then you do > not have a nVidia video card. > > > Question: How can I get the driver for my nVidia video card? > > Answer: This is a two step procedure. We will want to yum install the > driver if possible. If your using a F8 i386 this will work. > > Step 1: For sure you have a fedora.repo in your yum repo storage. If you > have never installed another repo then you must get the livna or > freshrpms repo. I used the livna. > > If you know you have other repo's in your system with a root > terminal cd /etc/yum.repo.d/ if your using F8. Here is how your > directory might look. > > [root@k5di yum.repos.d]# ls > fedora-development.repo fedora-updates.repo livna.repo > Fedora-install-media.repo fedora-updates-testing.repo livna-testing.repo > fedora.repo livna-devel.repo > > If your directory does not have any livna.xxx files you need to > continue. If yours looks like mine go to step 2. > > To get the livna repo files in an rpm, you need to go to the livna > web page. Do this by putting livna into google. When there click on the > rectangle with your version of Fedora. A window will open up and when > you have the rpm downloaded you can leave the web page. > > On your system in a root terminal install the rpm you just > downloaded with # rpm -i filename.rpm and it should load without any > problem. > The freshrpms repo was not done. It has been shown that a /yum.repos.d/ > with three or more repos will have trouble. So have only two in yours. > > This completes Step 1. > > > Step 2: In this step we will get the proper files to set your Fedora so > it works with a nVidia VGA controller. The proper files for an F8 i386 > are on the livna computer so the easy way is to "yum" them. Use this > method: > > In a root terminal type yum install kmod-nvidia. You should get 4 rpm > packages. When they are installed reboot your computer and it will come > up with the full features of nVidia video. If your system is a 64 bit or > KDE F8 or some other version Step 2 is difficult and beyond the scope of > this example. > KFL > > Karl Karl: Why is the above an improvement over this: http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f8.html#nvidia -- cmg
