installing Nvidia driver and dual monitor
I remember i posted it here yesterday, but ..
I am trying to set up dual monitor with a Nvidia Geforce 9600GT video card. Obviously, Fedora 9 does not allow me to do that via GUI - cannot select 'second video card' via 'display" even though it has dual DVI outputs. Nice!
by doing some research (why the hell do i need to do that?), i was convinced to install Nvidia driver (NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-173.14.12-pkg2.run), which I dutiful downloaded from Nvidia. When tried to sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-173.14.12-pkg2.run, it gave an error about not having a compiled kernel, then complained about no kernel source.
After I went to download the proper kernel source, kernel-2.6.25-14.fc9.src.rpm, obviously, it wouldn't install.
[root@localhost Download]# rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.25-14.fc9.src.rpm
warning: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
warning: group mockbuild does not exist - using root
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warning: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
warning: group mockbuild does not exist - using root
Further research yielded nothing. Could anybody help? This costed me a whole night so far.
I only want to get the dual monitor to work, not really care about the Nvidia driver if not needed.
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