kmod-nvidia for the FC9 Kernel, can't find it!
 

Hi all,

I have just installed FC9 on my box, I am trying to find the correct drivers for the NVIDIA 6200 GeForce card, I have tried to set kyum up to download from the livna-development repositories, no luck, can't find a valid baseurl.

I then went directly to livna's FTP site, I have so far got to this page:
http://livna-dl.reloumirrors.net/fed...elopment/i386/

I have got the output of uname -a:
Linux localhost 2.6.25.3-18.fc9.i686 #1 SMP Tue May 13 05:38:53 EDT 2008 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

Can anybody help me as to which of kmod-nvidias to use? They don't seem to be labelled to match the kernel!

Thanks

Tom

Last I checked (could have changed by now) Nvidia was not supporting the version of Xorg that F9 uses.

Seconded
 

I was looking over this last weekend. It appears that FC9 went to a new version of the X server that NVidia drivers don't support yet. When they do, the drivers will probably show up on livna as kmod-nvidia. If you've got a fresh install, you might want to go to FC8 until the drivers catch up. I'm hoping it won't take too long.

Appears you guys are right, sadly the drivers aren't yet built!

Just for the experiment I tried to install nvidia-drivers with the nvidia-installer.
I used Fedora 8, guess it will work on Fedora 9 too.
Requirements: gcc, make and kernel-devel...must match exactly,
see /lib/modules/2.6.xx.x-xx.fc9
Hit 'Ctrl+Alt+F1' and log into root. X is still running, so # init 3
and then # sh /path-to-nvidia-/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-xxx.xx-pk1.run
and after installl # init 5, and X should be there again.
Worked with 169.12 ,not with 100.14.11(always dos on other OS')
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
will show the one, you can use.

Edit : sorry, new version of x11, forgot that.

Check this out: http://www.my-guides.net/en/content/view/103/26He puts out a how-to for every Fedora release it seems. He addresses the new version of Xorg and gives a link to a how-to on how to revert back to the Xorg of old and use the old Nvidia drivers.

Seems like a lot of work, but it might be worth it if you're hell bent on 3D acceleration.

Brandon

Thanks for the help,

I think I'll just wait until the new drivers are released, I mainly use my box for web development, so 3d isn't that important. It's just nice to know that when your eyes are about to bleed after 3 hours coding, you can play a good game to take your mind off it ;-)

Thanks again

Tom

It's Alive!
 

Just in case all of you haven't seen the updates, the NVidia team caught up with the new X Server, and there's Kernel drivers on Livna. Just add the Livna repositiory and type "yum install kmod-nvidia", and you should have the new display.