Fedora 9 64 and Nvidia kmod

[Phil Meyer]

Rich Emberson wrote:
> I've got a:
> ASUS P5Q Deluxe
> Intel quad core QX9550
> Asus EN7300GT Nvidia silent graphics board
>
> While booting there is a line indicating that it has found the
> Nvidia graphics card.
>
> When I execute:
> # glxinfo | grep direct
> direct rendering: Yes
>
> Which I assume means that the graphics card is being used,
> but I never installed the kmod-nvidia kernel mod.
> Does it need to be installed to fully use the card?
>
> Thanks, Richard

$ rpm -qa | grep nvidia

Your description reads as if you have one of the nvidia packages 
installed, whether from livna or atrpms, or whatever.

The check for nvidia drivers at boot up is not done, otherwise.