Right Distro? Vid drivers? Wine?
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I am having a dickens of a time. I was content with attempting this on my own, but I made enough boo boo's last night that I pretty much decided I NEEDED to start from scratch.
So here I am now, with a fresh Fedora Cord 5 install, and all I have done is updated the kernel and downloaded the drivers from nVidia for my 7900. My processor is an AMD64 3700
So here is my problem. I have Fedora dual booted with XP. My ultimate goal is to get World of Warcraft working on it.
I found MANY sets of instructions and began following them to see what I could do. I ended up with some Wine errors, but that is neither here nor there at this point. It was basically saying that it couldnt create a certain directory - but I am not worried about that for the moment.
What I am worried about is my nVidia drivers. I realized I should probably install them before trying to get the game working.
I have had nothing but problems.
I downloaded the drivers directly from nVidia. I go to install them (outside of X) and I get a message that I do not have the correct kernel source in the nVidia install program. That I should try a different kernel. I went back to the only other one I had (15 instead of 17) and tried it - same thing
I found another set of instructions on how to install thru YUM.
It failed there as well. I tried a the older kernel again, and same thing.
I installed linux as a learning expirience, but I am afraid I dont know enough about what I am doing to accomplish this.
Some have told me Fedora sucks, and I should try something else.. Debian or Ubuntu, but the underlying OS is still linux. I have to imagine I can get this working somehow
So right now I have a more or less fresh install of Fedora.
Anyone have any suggestions on how to proceed?
Should I try a more user friendly distro?
If I get WoW installed and running, its all thats keeping me from sorta shoo shooing windows away. I am aware of the learning curve, but really wanna make this work. (everything, not just the game)
Help!
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