Hey everyone,
So I am having a serious problem with my Video Card drivers. I put a fresh install of FC9 2.6.25-14 on my computer and when it updated to 2.6.26.5-45 the generic drivers that were installed with my computer disappeared.

Here is my xorg.conf file
I attempted to install nvidia drivers on my last install of fc9 and had alot of problems so I hope someone can help me fix this right this time.
I appreciate any help in advance.

The easiest way for you to go is to install the nvidia drivers for your kernel. You can do this using package management tools on Fedora 9 by including the "livna" repositries. Go to

http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-9.rpm

This will install the "livna" yum repo for you. Once installed use the "Add/Remove" software menu to install the nvidia drivers.

Hope this helps.

So I installed the configure the Nvidia Graphics driver software in the add/remove programs section and when I run the software i get the following error.

You do not appear to be using the NVIDIA X driver. Please edit your X configuration file (just run `nvidia-xconfig` as root), and restart the X server.

I tried but it came up as an empty command. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks
Shade

please post the results to the following command

rpm -qa|grep -i nvidia

Ok. This suggests that you have not installed the nvidia drivers correctly.

Fire up the package management application and select the following package

"Metapackage which tracks in nvidia kernel module for newest kernel"

The one I have installed is "kmod-nvidia-173.14.12-5.lvn9.1(i686)"

Select the package appropriate for your architecture (probably "i686" ?)

Install this package and you should have the nvidia drivers correctly installed.

So i installed the most current "kmod-nvidia-173.14.12-5.lvn9.1(i686)" however when I restarted my computer it crashed. It defaulted to the non x oriented version of fc9 so I went into xorg.conf and attempted to change it back to the way it was installed however that also did not work.

Please help

Backup your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file (eg. cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.orig) and then delete /etc/X11/xorg.conf (rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf)

Now remove all nvidia drivers :-

1. First find them all with rpm -qa|grep -i nvidia

(I get the following when I run this command

xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-173.14.12-1.lvn9.i386
kmod-nvidia-2.6.26.5-45.fc9.i686-173.14.12-5.lvn9.i686
kmod-nvidia-2.6.26.6-79.fc9.i686-173.14.12-5.lvn9.1.i686
kmod-nvidia-2.6.26.3-29.fc9.i686-173.14.12-4.lvn9.i686
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173.14.12-1.lvn9.i386
kmod-nvidia-173.14.12-5.lvn9.1.i686 )

2. Remove all instances by using rpm -e xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-173.14.12-1.lvn9.i386 kmod-nvidia-2.6.26.5-45.fc9.i686-173.14.12-5.lvn9.i686 kmod-nvidia-2.6.26.6-79.fc9.i686-173.14.12-5.lvn9.1.i686 kmod-nvidia-2.6.26.3-29.fc9.i686-173.14.12-4.lvn9.i686 etc etc ie. put all of your install nvidia stuff on the one line after the rpm -e command

3. reboot your computer. This should boot to an X server using the open source "nv" driver.

4. If this does not work, I would replace the "vesa" with "nv" in your original xorg.conf file and try rebooting again.

To see if the nvidia graphics chip is being recognized you can run the following command "/sbin/lspci". This will list all your pci devices and with any luck your nvidia graphics card will be listed. The output for this command for my card is :-

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8400M GS (rev a1)

Here is a post regarding the new card you have which may give you some help

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=197275

Good luck

This worked perfectly, I think it even removed something else that may have been installed and trying to control my video card. It has currently fixed my screen resolution and I that the fedora forum link will be able to help me in the future.

Good to hear. Which part actually worked for you?