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Old 05-19-2008, 03:45 AM   #1
Tom "Techno" Earl
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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
 
Old 05-19-2008, 10:39 AM   #2
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Last I checked (could have changed by now) Nvidia was not supporting the version of Xorg that F9 uses.
 
Old 05-19-2008, 10:48 AM   #3
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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.
 
Old 05-19-2008, 01:06 PM   #4
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Appears you guys are right, sadly the drivers aren't yet built!
 
Old 05-20-2008, 10:56 AM   #5
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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.

Last edited by knudfl; 05-21-2008 at 03:38 AM.
 
Old 05-20-2008, 04:21 PM   #6
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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
 
Old 05-21-2008, 04:22 PM   #7
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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
 
Old 05-30-2008, 10:43 AM   #8
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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.
 
  


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