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I have just installed FC9 on my box, I am trying to find the correct drivers for the NVIDIA 6200 GeForce card, I have tried to set kyum up to download from the livna-development repositories, no luck, can't find a valid baseurl.
I was looking over this last weekend. It appears that FC9 went to a new version of the X server that NVidia drivers don't support yet. When they do, the drivers will probably show up on livna as kmod-nvidia. If you've got a fresh install, you might want to go to FC8 until the drivers catch up. I'm hoping it won't take too long.
Distribution: PCLinuxOS2023 Fedora38 + 50+ other Linux OS, for test only.
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Just for the experiment I tried to install nvidia-drivers with the nvidia-installer.
I used Fedora 8, guess it will work on Fedora 9 too.
Requirements: gcc, make and kernel-devel...must match exactly,
see /lib/modules/2.6.xx.x-xx.fc9
Hit 'Ctrl+Alt+F1' and log into root. X is still running, so # init 3
and then # sh /path-to-nvidia-/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-xxx.xx-pk1.run
and after installl # init 5, and X should be there again.
Worked with 169.12 ,not with 100.14.11(always dos on other OS') http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
will show the one, you can use.
Distribution: Fedora mainly, but I am open to others.
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Check this out: http://www.my-guides.net/en/content/view/103/26He puts out a how-to for every Fedora release it seems. He addresses the new version of Xorg and gives a link to a how-to on how to revert back to the Xorg of old and use the old Nvidia drivers.
Seems like a lot of work, but it might be worth it if you're hell bent on 3D acceleration.
I think I'll just wait until the new drivers are released, I mainly use my box for web development, so 3d isn't that important. It's just nice to know that when your eyes are about to bleed after 3 hours coding, you can play a good game to take your mind off it ;-)
Just in case all of you haven't seen the updates, the NVidia team caught up with the new X Server, and there's Kernel drivers on Livna. Just add the Livna repositiory and type "yum install kmod-nvidia", and you should have the new display.
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