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there was a upgrade to fedora xorg in fedora 9 and not all of the old drivers were updated to use the NEW xorg .But i thought that the 173 was updated ????
if you want i have a " how to " to downgrade fedora 9 's xorg to the one in fedora 8
i did this for a bit of time until i found a driver ( posted on the nvidia forum) that was ported to the new xorg
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/

How to - my copy of an old one on fedoraforum edited for 64 bit ( i think?)

Code:

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su -

yum -y remove xorg-x11-server-Xorg xorg-x11-server-common

rpm -e --nodeps --allmatches mesa-libGL mesa-libGLU mesa-libGL-devel mesa-libGLU-devel glx-utils mesa-dri-drivers

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Download fedora8.repo and modify fedora.repo.

Note: The modified fedora.repo only adds an "exclude" line to ignore the unwanted Xorg Xserver 1.4



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cd /etc/yum.repos.d

wget http://www.linux-ati-drivers.homecall.co.uk/fedora8.repo

-- the link on longer works

fedora8.repo



        Code:


        
[fedora-8]

name=Fedora 8- x86_64

failovermethod=priority

baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Fedora/x86_64/os/

enabled=1

gpgcheck=0

gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY


perl -i -pe "s/(\[.*\])/\1\nexclude=xorg* linuxwacom* rhpxl* mesa*/"  fedora.repo

perl -i -pe "s/(\[.*\])/\1\nexclude=xorg* linuxwacom* rhpxl* mesa*/" fedora-updates.repo

perl -i -pe "s/(\[.*\])/\1\nexclude=xorg* linuxwacom* rhpxl* mesa*/" fedora-updates-testing.repo

perl -i -pe "s/(\[.*\])/\1\nexclude=xorg* linuxwacom* rhpxl* mesa*/" fedora-updates-newkey.repo

perl -i -pe "s/(\[.*\])/\1\nexclude=xorg* linuxwacom* rhpxl* mesa*/" fedora-updates-testing-newkey.repo

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you will also need to edit any "repos" not done by the perl code 



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Install Development Tools/Libraries

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yum clean all

yum install xorg-x11-server-Xorg 

yum  groupinstall "X Window System"

yum  install mesa-libGL mesa-libGLU mesa-libGL-devel mesa-libGLU-devel synaptics

# Optional, re-install compiz.

yum  install compiz-gnome compiz-fusion* gnome-compiz-manager ccsm

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Now, just install the Nvidia drivers.( use the nvidia.run)

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