installing of driver and adobe flash player (fedora10)
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installing of driver and adobe flash player (fedora10)
Had a clean install on a system, how should i go about to install the driver?
graphic card etc...
and how install the adobe flash player had tried dl from the http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ but just couldnt get it work/installed
Since you already have that driver installer the better. Now see if that installer is for your distro/OS which is fedora?
If that driver-installer has the extension xxxxx.rpm (an .rpm file) then you may proceed to install it according to the code given by watcher69b above. It means you will launch a terminal (a dos prompt for Windows users), you must be a root to install it, enter the code given above:
rpm -ivh "filename".rpm
filename is the name of your nvidia driver-installer.
However, if your driver-installer has the extension xxxxxx.run (a .run file, which is freely offered in the web) then you must install it in the shell. This means you logout from X window first (because the installer demands that X window is not running during installation). You must run it as root. Then at the shell installation is very easy, at the prompt you only enter the name of the installer file:
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.run (hit Enter)
if prompted to answer, just click yes. If the installer needs to compile a new kernel, click yes. All you need to do is "yes" and wait. Then reboot if being asked, if not, you may proceed to enter command: startx. You'll have nice resolution by then.
Since you already have that driver installer the better. Now see if that installer is for your distro/OS which is fedora?
If that driver-installer has the extension xxxxx.rpm (an .rpm file) then you may proceed to install it according to the code given by watcher69b above. It means you will launch a terminal (a dos prompt for Windows users), you must be a root to install it, enter the code given above:
rpm -ivh "filename".rpm
filename is the name of your nvidia driver-installer.
However, if your driver-installer has the extension xxxxxx.run (a .run file, which is freely offered in the web) then you must install it in the shell. This means you logout from X window first (because the installer demands that X window is not running during installation). You must run it as root. Then at the shell installation is very easy, at the prompt you only enter the name of the installer file:
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.run (hit Enter)
if prompted to answer, just click yes. If the installer needs to compile a new kernel, click yes. All you need to do is "yes" and wait. Then reboot if being asked, if not, you may proceed to enter command: startx. You'll have nice resolution by then.
In linux xxx.exe, xxx.com, xxx.sys are not recognized: they are only microsoft file-formats. In linux (as well as any Unix like systems) an executable file may be named anything with or without extension, still it runs. So among linux ported drivers there is no such thing as xxx.exe. I too was a M$window user for very long time and today I have somehow managed to "unlearn" the bad habits
If xxx.rpm did not work for you, try to look for an nvidia driver-installer with a xxxxxx.run extension. So far .run installer from nvidia did good to me. Use google:: "nvidia linux driver .run download" it sure will return good quickly.
Just be sure X window is not running while you install: this means you must be on "shell" not just in a terminal "emulator".
In linux xxx.exe, xxx.com, xxx.sys are not recognized: they are only microsoft file-formats. In linux (as well as any Unix like systems) an executable file may be named anything with or without extension, still it runs. So among linux ported drivers there is no such thing as xxx.exe. I too was a M$window user for very long time and today I have somehow managed to "unlearn" the bad habits
If xxx.rpm did not work for you, try to look for an nvidia driver-installer with a xxxxxx.run extension. So far .run installer from nvidia did good to me. Use google:: "nvidia linux driver .run download" it sure will return good quickly.
Just be sure X window is not running while you install: this means you must be on "shell" not just in a terminal "emulator".
Check back how it goes.
Goodluck.
had dl the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-180.29-pkg1.run...
but had no idea how to get to the 'shell' thing...
i tried wine...
but found out the driver in the installation cd only for windows..
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