Welcome to My Own Installation Nvidia Guide

I've finally got an answer to most of the Nvidia Driver installation Problems! Eg. GLX Missing...etc

Tested on Fedora Core 3! Yahoo!!!

Follow the Steps

1) a) Edit your "/etc/inittab" =>

Change the id:5:initdefault to id:3:initdefault .

b) Edit your "/etc/X11/Xorg.conf" => Look for the Driver "nv" change it to Driver "nvidia"

In the Module section, make sure you have: Load "glx"

You should also remove the following lines:
Load "dri"
Load "GLcore"

*Please save the following files*
*Reboot System*

2) Text Mode-Login screen. Login as root.
Change to the directory, where's the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1.run file located.
Type sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1.run .

3) No precompiled kernel interface was found to match your kernel; would you like the installer to attempt to download a kernel interface for your kernel from the NVIDIA ftp site (ftp://download.nvidia.com)? (Answer: No)

4) No precompiled kernel interface was found to match your kernel; this means that the installer will need to compile a new kernel interface. (Answer: OK)

5) WARNING: Your kernel was configured to include rivafb support as a loadable kernel module.
The rivafb driver conflicts with the NVIDIA driver; the NVIDIA kernel module will still be built and installed, but be aware that the NVIDIA driver will not be able to function properly if the rivafb module is loaded! (Answer: OK)

6) Wait for the Nvidia to finish the installation!

At the Text-Mode Login Screen.

a) Type modprobe nvidia.
b) Type cp -a /dev/nvidia* /etc/udev/devices
c) Type chown root.root /etc/udev/devices/nvidia*
d) Type reboot

7) At the Text-Mode Login Screen.

a) Type init 5

8) Edit the /etc/inittab => id:3:initdefault to id:5:initdefault

9) Test Run 3D Games= *Run tuxracer* *Screensaver (3D)*

10) Finished! Thank You

hmmm...
--FC3 uses runlevel 5 -- what are they calling it, Fedora RunLevel??

hes saying when you restart your computer in run level 3, X is not started. Doing it the easy to understand way. Some people prefer it that way rather than exiting X manually.

nono, you miss my point -- runlevel 4 is what i'm used to seeing as gdm/kdm/xdm, and runlevel 5 as being unused... hence my sarcastic comment...

Runlevel 3 , it's safer when you've just installed the Nvidia Driver.
After successfully running it, change back the "Default" runlevel 5!

still missed it...

Why not boot normally, su to root and run /sbin/init 3?

Same impact, no edit to inittab....

bl

And no rebooting .. !

but then you would miss all the fun of a linux reboot, why would you want to miss out on that?

This would fit much better in the Linux Tutorials section. Have you considered submitting it there?