Enabling 3D Effects In Fedora Core 6 ????
 

Hi Chicks and Lads.I am using FEDORA CORE 6. It rocsks. No doubt. FEDORA have provided an option for enabling 3D effects. I have tried but it has failed. Has any one tried it or do u have any online link for the documentation.I am using NVIDIA 6200 TURBOCACHE graphics card. I have enabled XGL effects in SUSE LINUX 10.1 successfully.....Waiting for ur reply

Which graphics driver are you using in Fedora?

If it's the kernel module nv, then you do not have 3d capability. You need to install the nvidia driver from the nvidia website.

First and foremost I am using Fedora Core 6 64 Bit Version. When I enabled 3D effects (xgl) in Suse 10.1 Linux. I do installed Nvidia drivers. It was a *.run file. I used:
#sh *.run
It was a great script and drivers were successfully installed. However I have tried to install the same driver for Fc6. Even I downloaded the latest driver from Nvidia.com. But all my efforts ended in vain. I downloaded 64 bit drivers for AMD provided by Nvidia. As I am having AMD 64 Athlon.

This was the log generated by NVIDIA INSTALLER SCRIPT IN FC6:
option status:
license pre-accepted : false
update : false
force update : false
expert : false
uninstall : false
driver info : false
precompiled interfaces : true
no ncurses color : false
query latest version : false
OpenGL header files : true
no questions : false
silent : false
no recursion : false
no backup : false
kernel module only : false
sanity : false
add this kernel : false
no runlevel check : false
no network : false
no ABI note : false
no RPMs : false
no kernel module : false
force SELinux : default
force tls : (not specified)
force compat32 tls : (not specified)
X install prefix : (not specified)
X library install path : (not specified)
X module install path : (not specified)
OpenGL install prefix : (not specified)
OpenGL install libdir : (not specified)
compat32 install chroot : (not specified)
compat32 install prefix : (not specified)
compat32 install libdir : (not specified)
utility install prefix : (not specified)
utility install libdir : (not specified)
doc install prefix : (not specified)
kernel name : (not specified)
kernel include path : (not specified)
kernel source path : (not specified)
kernel output path : (not specified)
kernel install path : (not specified)
proc mount point : /proc
ui : (not specified)
tmpdir : /tmp
ftp mirror : ftp://download.nvidia.com
RPM file list : (not specified)

Using: nvidia-installer ncurses user interface
-> License accepted.
-> No precompiled kernel interface was found to match your kernel; would you li
ke the installer to attempt to download a kernel interface for your kernel f
rom the NVIDIA ftp site (ftp://download.nvidia.com)? (Answer: Yes)
-> No matching precompiled kernel interface was found on the NVIDIA ftp site;
this means that the installer will need to compile a kernel interface for
your kernel.
-> Performing CC sanity check with CC="cc".
-> Performing CC version check with CC="cc".
ERROR: Unable to find the kernel source tree for the currently running kernel.
Please make sure you have installed the kernel source files for your
kernel and that they are properly configured; on Red Hat Linux systems,
for example, be sure you have the 'kernel-source' RPM installed. If you
know the correct kernel source files are installed, you may specify the
kernel source path with the '--kernel-source-path' command line option.
ERROR: Installation has failed. Please see the file
'/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' for details. You may find suggestions
on fixing installation problems in the README available on the Linux
driver download page at www.nvidia.com.

Is there a Kernel Mismatch or Nvidia don't support FEDORA?

It's amazing that something so similar could be posted. I'm at a point where the NVidia .run is asking for GCC and libc to be installed. I dont have the slightest on how to do that but this is all in an effort to get the special effects running.

Just download and install the latest kmod-nvia and xorg-x11-drv-nvidia files.
http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/testing/6/x86_64/repodata/

If it were only that easy to "just" do something. A number of things fail when the dependencies are polled.

The following is the error received after attempting to install kmod-nvidia and xorg-x11-drv packages as instructed here http://scribez.wordpress.com/2006/10...n-nvidia-card/

This is a very simple evolution. You can install the livna beta builds or you can build them yourself. Read this
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=72490

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=79585

I didn't post the error received when trying to install kmod-nvidia.

I have finally configured the 3D effects on Fedora Core 6...Thanx to all on this forum for ur overwhelming support....Here are the screens shorts.......
http://discoverlinux.blogspot.com/20...ra-core-6.html