installing Nvidia driver and dual monitor
 

I remember i posted it here yesterday, but ..

I am trying to set up dual monitor with a Nvidia Geforce 9600GT video card. Obviously, Fedora 9 does not allow me to do that via GUI - cannot select 'second video card' via 'display" even though it has dual DVI outputs. Nice!

by doing some research (why the hell do i need to do that?), i was convinced to install Nvidia driver (NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-173.14.12-pkg2.run), which I dutiful downloaded from Nvidia. When tried to sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-173.14.12-pkg2.run, it gave an error about not having a compiled kernel, then complained about no kernel source.

After I went to download the proper kernel source, kernel-2.6.25-14.fc9.src.rpm, obviously, it wouldn't install.
[root@localhost Download]# rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.25-14.fc9.src.rpm

warning: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
warning: group mockbuild does not exist - using root
########################################### [100%]
warning: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
warning: group mockbuild does not exist - using root


Further research yielded nothing. Could anybody help? This costed me a whole night so far.

I only want to get the dual monitor to work, not really care about the Nvidia driver if not needed.

Forgive me if my complete lack of familiarity with Fedora is showing, but can you not get a pre-compiled rpm of the kernel module from the same place you got the driver? On second thoughts, it looks like it might be the driver from the NVIDIA site.

Still, by analogy with Mandriva, the community provides prebuilt NVIDIA drivers and kernel modules for Mandriva distributions, though it is also possible to use the NVIDIA package and compile the kernel module. What is needed to do that is to install the devel rpm for the kernel you are using and then run the NVIDIA installer.

I suggest you check out the Fedora repositories for something similar. The messages you got about "mockbuild" arise because the kernel source you installed was prepared by a user called "mockbuild".

Sorry I cannot be of any real help. Perhaps a Fedora expert can fill in the missing details...

Richard