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G'day
just upgraded from Fedora 4 to 5 and i dont seem to be able to install my Nvidia drivers. I have installed the kernal-devel rpm to install the source so that the nvidia drivers can build the kernal modules but towards the end of the building process the thing crashes and quits with the cannot build module error. am i missing something here or is it just FC5 that is refusing to install it ( this method worked perfectly in FC4 ).
There are a few threads similar to yours in the Fedora Core forum. Take a look there for a possible solution. The problem could be related to the default kernel that shipped with Fedora Core 5 so you may need to upgrade to a newer kernel and kernel-devel package.
G'day
just upgraded from Fedora 4 to 5 and i dont seem to be able to install my Nvidia drivers. I have installed the kernal-devel rpm to install the source so that the nvidia drivers can build the kernal modules but towards the end of the building process the thing crashes and quits with the cannot build module error. am i missing something here or is it just FC5 that is refusing to install it ( this method worked perfectly in FC4 ).
thanx for ur time.
Hi,
I haven't installed FC5 on a production machine yet. Test machine only. But from what I've read, nVidia says there is a bug in the shipped FC5 kernel so you can't install the nVidia drivers. There is a work around but it's supposed to be fixed in the upcoming FC5 kernel release.
I installed FC5 on a machine that has a FX5500 in it. The driver that shipped with FC5 "works" but I haven't really spent a lot of time to see if there are any problems with the default driver.
well, i too am using the drivers that shipped with FC5 and their decent at 2d-accel ( eyecandy and movie playback is fine ) but cant get any games running on it ( cant enable 3d accel on my 6600GT without the nvidia proper drivers )
I have the same problem, can't get the GUI to work at all (performed a text install). After reading through in installation fix on http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mj...c5.html#nvidia I noticed it was for the i386 architecture... I have the X86_64 version. Which intructions should I follow to get my NVIDIA 6600GT to work?
both rpm packages mentioned in the above link
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-1.0.8178-0.lvn.5.i386.rpm
nvidia-kmod-1.0.8178-0.lvn.3.2.6.15_1.1881_FC5.src.rpm
wouldn't work for me right? After a toally clean install what kinds of updates (yum and otherwhise) do I need to perform before trying with whatever some of you come up with? Remember newbie so please don't leave out any commands.
I'd really appriciate some help right now, thanks.
martinr
go to the link I gave before. It's from nvidia. I really dont know why people go to other sites rather than the source (nvidia). The directions are as clear as day.
Not sure if this helps anyone but it worked for me.
I installed everything via Livna. Opened the package manager, (Applications > Add/remove software), and selected 'List' followed by 'Available Packages'.
I started with kernel 2.6.16-1.2080_FC5 followed by the kernel-devel package. I've read on other posts that you need the xorg-x11-server-sdk so that was installed next followed by kmod-nvidia - 1.0.8178-6.2.6_161.2080_FC5.i686.
This even configured xorg.conf for me, all I had to change was the horizontal sync and vert refresh settings for my monitor.
After a reboot the nvidia splash screen was there and everything seems good. Not tested games yet but thats next.
Hope this helps.
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