fedora 9 and an nvidia 7200gs video card

[Veli-Pekka Kestilä]

Tosh wrote:
> Don Raikes wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have fedora 9 installed on my gateway desktop and it was working 
>> fine except for the fact that my video card died.
>>
>> I just installed a new nvidia 7200gs card (the nvidia 84000gs card 
>> wouldn't fit).
>>
>> Now when I try to run gnome, I get a message saying no devices were 
>> found. I am assuming I need to install some drivers, but cannot find 
>> any for linux 32-bit.
>>
>> Does anyone know where those pesky drivers are?
>>
> First login in runtime 3 and edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> The line Containing should be changed to "Driver vesa" (no quotes needed)
> Now you reboot (or restart X) and login, you will be able to run an X 
> environment, but you will nog have any drm or 3d support
> For that download your driver at :
> http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
> yum install kernel-devel
> and then run the file downloaded from nvidia
> I seem never to have any luck being able to use the standard yum 
> procedure, the above works always for me, but adds more work as you 
> need to do this every time your kernel changes
>
Wouldn't it be just better to use the rpmfusion packaged ones. And I 
even remember there have been mentioned on this list that the driver 
directly from nvidia can break things in your system.

Just install the rpmfusion:

su -c 'rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
	http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm'

And use instructions in here to install the correct driver for your 
card. http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia

I have never had problems with rpmfusion drivers except that they 
usually update for the new kernel day or two later than it's out for 
fedora, but I have been able to live with that. And as extra benefit you 
can just uninstall them with yum when there is some problems.

Veli-Pekka