nvidia GeForce 6600 driver and video problem

[Barry Yu]

Deepak Shrestha wrote:

>rhgb and SELinux seems to interfere with the
>installation of nvida driver. you are using FC4 right?
>have a look at:
>http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index.php/Fedora_Core_4_Linux_Installation_Notes#nVidia:
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>I don't know if it applies to your video card but
>process must be similar. I had a old nvidia card and
>followed the installation steps. It works fine for me.
>
>--- Barry Yu <barryyupuilee at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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>>Downloaded driver NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7676-pkg1.run
>>from nvidia site. 
>>During the whole installation process everything
>>seems fine without 
>>error message displayed, but the end result is; Only
>>can have resolution 
>>600x480 and 800x600, leaving over an inch of empty
>>space (Black) at 4 
>>sides on display.
>>The CPU is Athoon XP 1700, any help? Thanks
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I did used this installation method, however when I started ;

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

I got a message something like "Thereis not such file or folder", used ls /dev/nv* and I don't see the nvidia directory there.