FC3 and Nvidia driver 7167

[Joel Gomberg]

Ankur Jain wrote:
> Hi, I installed Fedora Core 3, a clean install....didnt not face any
> problems at all
> 
> Then I downloaded the nvidia driver from the vendor's site, followed
> the instructions i.e.
> switch to runlevel 3, run the installer, ignore the warnings, edit the
> xorg.conf(# the dri and enabling the glx modules and changing the
> driver line to nvidia) and restart the X.
> 
> But, it is giving me some error that module nvidia.ko cannot be found,
> and it is accessing a corrupt library, could someone help?

It's a udev issue.  The modules need to be copied to the /udev directory 
   before you reboot:


cp -a /dev/nvidia* /etc/udev/devices/

chown root: /etc/udev/devices/nvidia*

[This is from the Fedora FAQ at www.fedorafaq.org/custom_nvidia.html

--
Joel