fedora 9 and an nvidia 7200gs video card

[Tosh]

Don Raikes wrote:
> Thanks for this info:
> Unfortunately, once I installed the rpmfusion yum configuration files, and search for the kmod-nvidia package as indicated on the howto page, I didn't find any packages.
> Oh well I also discovered that it helps to make sure the card itself is firmly seated in the pci slot. I opened the case up again this morning and made sure it was seated firmly, and reran /sbin/lspci and this time it showed the nvidia geforce 72 card :-)
> I manually edited /etc/X11/xorg.conf and changed the driver from radeon to vesa and now I can at least get into gnome using startx.
As I mentioned earlier you will not be able to run 3D appls (no OpenGL 
or very slow) and no desktop effects
The vesa driver is a generic driver that works for all vesa compliant 
cards, which means 99.99% of the cards on normal pc's or laptops

> 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.
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> 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.
As stated by previously, I always run into problems with kmod packages 
(maybe they do not like me?), they never install properly and end up 
killing my system
Anyway I have never had any problems with this procedure, I do the same 
for ATI drivers, it is easier for me and leaves me the choice which 
version I will use, as I download there version and compile it myself
I even have had problems with the iwl3945 (at the time it was not in the 
kernel), but yes it is more convenient to just yum it.