Brand new fc6 install on an AMD64/nvidia G70 system.

After reading the sticky and seeing that it might not be a good idea to use the drivers from nvidia's website, I eventually ended up here:

http://rpm.livna.org/rlowiki/Package...0d43622c2409cf

...But I have no clue what it is trying to say.

I don't have any nvidia files in the etc/xorg/modules area either.

What is my best course of action?

Direct rendering is currently not enabled, according to the output of the "glxinfo" command. I may not even have to install a driver at all, I don't know. I need help.



(p.s. - how do I get multimedia functions working in fc6, like the instructions in this thread do for SUSE (my last distro)?)

Hi there
Just thought I would point you to this thread:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=535241
It isn't the solution you need---in fact, it's the complete opposite! I hope it will help to NOT point you in one of the many wrong directions we have gone in that thread.. It seems there is some extreme difficulty in getting that particular combination of things to work properly.
I wish you the best; I don't know much about Fedora to begin with, but if I come across anything new, I'll post it here or there.
PS - You might do some browsing of bug-report areas/forums on either nvidia.com or livna, or somewhere , if you continue to have difficulty.

I tried the rpm on this page, but it gives me an unresolved dependance error.

Hey I see your chosen Distro is 'Still Looking'.... How about Slackware ?

Heheh...I'm trying to keep it to one distro a week, or else I'd have no time for school work.

Now I have two rpm's that are both dependant on eachother, and I need to know how to install them at the same time.

How do I do this?

LOL... Good question.. Are you able to use RPM or a similar tool to install them without checking for dependencies? That might work.. Check the man page on your installer and see if there is such an option..?

Is there a command I can use that doesn't check for dependencies?

Haha, oops, all I had to do was highlight both of them and use the normal installer.

I'm new to fedora.

Not sure.. As I said, I don't know Fedora much, except that it looks hard to make work properly :P, and Slackware uses .tgz packages so I don't use RPM's either..
Chack the manual page for RPM ('man rpm' in a console)

Success!

I used the files from these pages:

xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-1.0.9755-3.lvn6.x86_64.rpm

kmod-nvidia-1.0.9755-2.2.6.20_1.2933.fc6

and now glxinfo reports direct rendering as "yes"

I haven't had the chance to test compiz yet, but I think I'll leave that for another day.

Now - does anyone know where I can go for instructions on how to enable full multimedia playback for totem and firefox in FC6?

I'm really liking the speed of FC6, compared to my last distro, openSUSE 10.2.

Awesome Congrats!

Thanks for your help