Thanks for this info: Unfortunately, once I installed the rpmfusion yum configuration files, and search for the kmod-nvidia package as indicated on the howto page, I didn't find any packages. Oh well I also discovered that it helps to make sure the card itself is firmly seated in the pci slot. I opened the case up again this morning and made sure it was seated firmly, and reran /sbin/lspci and this time it showed the nvidia geforce 72 card :-) I manually edited /etc/X11/xorg.conf and changed the driver from radeon to vesa and now I can at least get into gnome using startx. -----Original Message----- From: Veli-Pekka Kestilä [mailto:fedora@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 8:05 AM To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. Subject: Re: fedora 9 and an nvidia 7200gs video card Tosh wrote: > Don Raikes wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I have fedora 9 installed on my gateway desktop and it was working >> fine except for the fact that my video card died. >> >> I just installed a new nvidia 7200gs card (the nvidia 84000gs card >> wouldn't fit). >> >> Now when I try to run gnome, I get a message saying no devices were >> found. I am assuming I need to install some drivers, but cannot find >> any for linux 32-bit. >> >> Does anyone know where those pesky drivers are? >> > First login in runtime 3 and edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf > The line Containing should be changed to "Driver vesa" (no quotes needed) > Now you reboot (or restart X) and login, you will be able to run an X > environment, but you will nog have any drm or 3d support > For that download your driver at : > http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us > yum install kernel-devel > and then run the file downloaded from nvidia > I seem never to have any luck being able to use the standard yum > procedure, the above works always for me, but adds more work as you > need to do this every time your kernel changes > Wouldn't it be just better to use the rpmfusion packaged ones. And I even remember there have been mentioned on this list that the driver directly from nvidia can break things in your system. Just install the rpmfusion: su -c 'rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm' And use instructions in here to install the correct driver for your card. http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia I have never had problems with rpmfusion drivers except that they usually update for the new kernel day or two later than it's out for fedora, but I have been able to live with that. And as extra benefit you can just uninstall them with yum when there is some problems. Veli-Pekka -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
