FC5 docs
Michael A. Peters
mpeters at mac.com
Mon May 1 09:07:29 UTC 2006
On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 09:37 +0100, Keith Powell wrote:
> Dan,
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> A couple of small points to clarify things.
>
> When I ran "yum install kmod-nvidia" I thought it would possibly run
> a script which would find the package from a repository and install
> it. This 'installation by a script' is used in other distributions.
> Wrong!
It would have found it if it new where to look.
Install the rpm.livna.org rpm as instructed Stuart Sears
wget http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-5.rpm
su -c "rpm -ih livna-release-5.rpm"
su -c "yum install kmod-nvidia"
You shouldn't have to modify the xorg.conf file - it should do it for
you.
>
> When I got those messages, I wondered if the driver was installed, but
> the xorg.conf file needed editing to change the driver (as is
> required with other distros I have tried). Wrong again!
>
> Cheers
>
> Keith.
>
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