I'm trying to install the latest Nvidia drivers from Livna and i get an error that says i am missing some packages. I am using Fedora Core 3.

/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10-1.770_FC3
/usr/sbin/nvidia-config-display
/usr/sbin/nvidia-config-display
nvidia-glx

I tried looking for these RPMs but I cant find them. I tried yum but i really dont even know how to use it properly. i have the all the latest files i could get from up2date.

Anyone know where i can get the necessary RPMs and what they are?

AS far as errors / rpm's missing:

what are the packages it says it needs. the names you have there look like files not packges. If you asked me, I'd see if you could 'yum install nvidia-glx'

http://fcp.homelinux.org/modules/sma...q.php?faqid=88

btw. Installing nvidia drivers from rpm is most often troublesome, just go to the nvidia site and install the ones there using the installer. That one always works.
Just make sure you have your kernel source installed, but for that one you do have an RPM.

grtz,
elluva

You can install the nvidia drivers on Fedora Core even if you don't have the kernel source installed. I agree, the nvidia installer is better than using rpms.

those 4 things I list are the packages I am missing. I really dont want to install from a source code because i dont want to risk screwing up my GUI. If i loose it i would be completely lost. If i am missing packages, when I install from the source wont I screw something up?

I installed the .run under init 3, only problem I have now is figuring out how to edit my Xconfig.

You can start X as a normal user, start a console session and switch to root. Use your favorite editor to change the graphics card driver in /etc/X11/xorg.conf from "nv" to "nvidia". To use an editor such as emacs or vi, you ould do "emacs /etc/X11/xorg.conf" or "vi /etc/xorg.conf". When done, log out and log back in and your system will be using the new nvidia drivers.

You can probably use gedit as well, because noobs tend not to know vi (exit and save in vi is done by pressing : then type x and then pushing [ENTER]) or emacs (exit and save by pressing CTRL-X CTRL-C, and then y to save).

he should not be able to run gedit as root, since he should not be loging into X as root. he would need to know how to do that. noobs should lear vi or emacs. neither are hard, both can be powerfull, and nano is available as well (ok, that gramar was questionable).

If he installed the development tools etc from FC3 he should have the kernel source installed. If he updated his distro via yum he should have the kernel source installed. Installing the kernel source is pretty basic. Locating it is another matter unless he updates via yum.

The nvidia drivers are much better than the livna stuff. He needs to download the nvidia developed stuff and go from there.

On Fedora Core, you don't need the kernel source to install the nvidia drivers.

No he does not need to log into X, but he can. If he does he can edit it by using 'su -c "gedit"' on a commandline. It could make things way less complicated for him. Be real, this guy just wants to install his graphics drivers, if one has to learn vi (or nvi or vim or...) just to do that... If he wants to learn it afterwards, ok, great, vi is a great editor (and so is emacs), but for a noob gedit (or kedit, xedit,...) can smoothen the learning curve. You're pretty narrow minded if you refuse to see that.

As I've said above, vi and emacs are extremely useful editors and I agree that he should learn at least one of both, but now could be an innapropriate time to do so.

greetz,
elluva