have you done the inittab thing? Chaging it to boot to text? Once you've done that, just run the nvidia shell script and follow the instructions. Later you'll have to edit a config file. The nvidia instructions do a good job at describing what you need to do. Good luck.

Attempt running it again and give us the full output

install kernel source package first(RPM somewhere in system tools or something like that, there is a gui for that )

Logout after booting in the gui
hit ctrl+alt+f4 for example to go to a console.
login as root
kill X : /etc/init.d/gdm stop

cd /downloads/nvidia-driver
chmod +x driver.run
./driver.run

Replace driver.run by the name of the downloaded file. If it is not a .run but a tar.gz, untar(ie unzip the archive : tar zxvf filename)

If you've updated udev, it should work without a kernel tree.
If you like to do it the old way, first install the SRPM for your kernel source(see the installation notes).
Since you don't really need it, their's no longer an RPM for this.

As for init 3, just press Ctrl-Alt-F3 again and press Enter(now it will work as before).

no that not the case....when i do like sh nv* it starts and everything but then it saids no precompiled kernal interface, and i cant install it

Well, if you don't believe me and your own Release notes(you didn't read them, did you?), feel free to install the SRPM, it can't harm you either.
You should still update udev tho...(if you don't, none of both ways will work for you).

PS: from the release notes you should have read before posting:

As for installing the kernel source, again from the release notes:


Just do a normal "rpm -Uvh xxx.src.rpm"




They made a small fault here.
In its command, replace "kernel.spec" with kernel-2.6.spec.
(replace <arch> with i686)


not needed for normal i686 systems

Have fun.

ok well i ran the up2date --get-source kernal; and there was none found because i just updated it the other day.....

the usr/scr/redhat doesnt even exist....

so when i instal the nvidia driver this is what it saids...


no precompiled kernal interface was found to match your kernal.....can we intall a kernal interface from the ftp nvida site...YES....no mathc precompileed kernal interface was found on the nvidia ftp site; this means that the installer will need to compile a kernal uinterface for your kernal....OK...error:unable to find the development tool 'cc' in ypur path; please make sure that you have the package 'gcc' installed...If gcc is installed on your system, then please cheack the 'cc' in in your path....ok

Hi,

Make sure you have GCC installed on the Add/Remove programs manager - I think it's under under one of the Development sections near the end (either KDE or Gnome I believe). Basically, you can't compile the interface because you don't have a compiler installed to compile with.

That's the problem with some of the defaults that Fedora gives when you install it: some of the options don't install any compilers so you won't ever be able to install anything without Yum or the Add/Remove programs manager.

Hope this helps!

Just wondering, do you absolutely need the nvidia drivers? Is your screen not displaying correctly that you can't work with linux? Do you want to play games on linux? Do you plan to use 3D applications like Blender or Maya? If not, maybe you should just try to get comfortable with linux first before attempting something like that. It'd be very nice if you could get it to work, but all this set up stuff might be too much too soon. Just a thought. I remember screwing over many Mandrake installs trying to install the nvidia driver when I first started.

It's kernel not kernal.
Mine looks like this:
[jens@localhost ~]$ ls /usr/src/redhat/
BUILD RPMS SOURCES SPECS SRPMS

So you don't have a kernel source tree and you don't have a compiler(gcc)...
No problem, you don't really need any of them for just this.

Getting your nvidia driver to work:
Add livna in /etc/yum.conf or replace it with this one:
http://www.fedorafaq.org/samples/yum.conf
(always make a backup of the original one)

Next, type:

Although I am not familiar with fedora core 3, using:

init 3

as root should put you into a command line only environment. The fact that you are getting some form of problem smacks me as a real issue...

Can you use the [ctrl][alt][F2] keys to get a command line login??? Try issuing the init 3 from there as root without logging into a graphical session of a user account.

ok so i change my yum config file and i type that stuff in the command. Nvidia was installed and then when i restarted the computer there was a splash screen but then it froze , but there was harddrive activity (from the LED). asfter bout 20 minuties i pressed random buttons and it went back into the black screen. so now i cant go into STARTX

PLease help me if someone can. I just want to have my PC back. How do i undo everything