Nvidia driver

Per Anton Rønning pa-ronn at online.no
Sun Aug 24 17:09:54 UTC 2008


TV Sivaraman wrote:
> Hi:
> Did yum install both the kmod-nvidia drivers? One is nvidia GP 
> dependent and the other kernel dependent (look at 
> http://livna-dl.reloumirrors.net/fedora/9/i386/). You may also have to 
> install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia and xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs from the 
> livna site.
Message was that these two were installed in their latest version.


> Sivaraman.
>
> On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Per Anton Rønning <pa-ronn at online.no 
> <mailto:pa-ronn at online.no>> wrote:
>
>     Starting a new thread for this question - please disregard  the same
>     question in then Java plugin thread:
>
>         TV Sivaraman wrote:
>
>             Hi:
>             I also experienced the same problem, so I switched over to
>             SUN Java. I did this as per instructions given at
>              http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f9.html#java.
>             You may test the status of your browser with
>             http://webapps.ou.edu/it/browser.
>             Sivaraman.
>
>     My PC is only 2-3 weeks old in my possesion and this is my first
>     encounter with Fedora 9.
>     (Earlier I was running Fedora Core 5)
>     The only screen resolution option I have now is 640x488, and I
>     would like to change that.
>     So I took a look at the ../resources/.. site, where I found
>     instructions for downloading Nvidia-driver:
>
>     $yum install kmod-nvidia , nvidia installation through Livna.
>
>     Installation went OK , and I did reboot the PC as recommended,
>     but no change, and the PC does not identify the LCD. It is
>     "unknown" to it.
>     It is configured as Vesa, which I guess is the best option when
>     nothing else is known. But I saw a message flashing over the
>     screen on bootup stating something about
>     the Nvidia driver - it would not take effect until.... something I
>     did not manage to read before it vanished.
>     Does anyone know what I should be looking for? (I did demsg, but
>     no trace of the message there)
>
>
>     Brgds
>     PAR
>
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