Re: How to Install Nvidia Driver in Fedora12?

2010-03-17 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Wednesday 17 March 2010 04:15:51 am Marcel Rieux wrote: On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 2:55 AM, Amiga5 ami...@live.com wrote: in your grub.conf add In order to keep compatibility with nouveau lsmod | grep nouveau outputs nothing. So, I suppose I don't have compatibility with Nouveau.

Re: How to Install Nvidia Driver in Fedora12?

2010-03-17 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 8:06 AM, Marko Vojinovic vvma...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 17 March 2010 04:15:51 am Marcel Rieux wrote: On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 2:55 AM, Amiga5 ami...@live.com wrote: in your grub.conf add In order to keep compatibility with nouveau lsmod | grep nouveau

Re: Re: How to Install Nvidia Driver in Fedora12?

2010-03-16 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 2:55 AM, Amiga5 ami...@live.com wrote: in your grub.conf add In order to keep compatibility with nouveau lsmod | grep nouveau outputs nothing. So, I suppose I don't have compatibility with Nouveau. My question here is what's the purpose of keeping compatibility with

Re: How to Install Nvidia Driver in Fedora12?

2010-03-15 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 8:54 PM, ka1ifq ka1...@sbcglobal.net wrote: On 08:30:12 pm Marcel Rieux m.z.ri...@gmail.com said Maybe I should add that, if I were you, I'd forget about Nvidia drivers altogether. Nvidia offers no support for Linux and, since it's not open source, you don't get much

Re: Re: How to Install Nvidia Driver in Fedora12?

2010-03-15 Thread Amiga5
in your grub.conf add In order to keep compatibility with nouveau http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia#nouveau, you either need to recreate the initrd manually after the driver has been installed, or add a command line option to the kernel. To recreate the initrd: su - mv

Re: How to Install Nvidia Driver in Fedora12?

2010-03-14 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 23:22 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: http://fedorasolved.org/video-solutions/nvidia-yum-kmod/ I seem to recall that you may also have to re-install (repair) the xorg installation, as the NVidia installer stuffs up some of the files (that's NVidia's own installer, not the RPM

Re: How to Install Nvidia Driver in Fedora12?

2010-03-14 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:27:00 +1030 Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 23:22 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: http://fedorasolved.org/video-solutions/nvidia-yum-kmod/ I seem to recall that you may also have to re-install (repair) the xorg installation, as the NVidia

Re: How to Install Nvidia Driver in Fedora12?

2010-03-14 Thread Marcel Rieux
210/3/14 严晶涛 yanjing...@innlab.net: My classmate has bought a computer with GT220. When I download Nvidia Driver,use init 3 to run it. but it prompt that cannot find nvidia.ko.. I have searched Google,and changed menu.lst,added nouveau.modeset=0 This time,I have install Nvidia Driver

Re: Re: How to Install Nvidia Driver in Fedora12?

2010-03-14 Thread Amiga5
On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:27:00 +1030 Timignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 23:22 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: http://fedorasolved.org/video-solutions/nvidia-yum-kmod/ I seem to recall that you may also have

Re: How to Install Nvidia Driver in Fedora12?

2010-03-14 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:57:20 -0700 Amiga5 ami...@live.com wrote: With these do you not have to recompile kernel everytime you install new nvidia driver? No. There is sometimes a short delay when a fedora kernel comes out before the rpmfusion kmod is available, but it's usually less than a day.

Re: How to Install Nvidia Driver in Fedora12?

2010-03-14 Thread ka1ifq
On 08:30:12 pm Marcel Rieux m.z.ri...@gmail.com said Maybe I should add that, if I were you, I'd forget about Nvidia drivers altogether. Nvidia offers no support for Linux and, since it's not open source, you don't get much from the community either. Even if the community wanted, without the

Re: How to Install Nvidia Driver in Fedora12?

2010-03-14 Thread Tim
Amiga5: With these do you not have to recompile kernel everytime you install new nvidia driver? Kevin Fenzi: No. There is sometimes a short delay when a fedora kernel comes out before the rpmfusion kmod is available, but it's usually less than a day. If you use the akmod, rather than kmod,

Re: How to Install Nvidia Driver in Fedora12?

2010-03-14 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 00:37:35 +, Fred Williams duked...@googlemail.com wrote: Out of curiosity, when does Nouveau plan to be able to offer the same 3D capabilities, if even in alpha-experimental form? That's the only thing keeping me from leaving the NVidia drivers for Nouveau. Some

Re: How to Install Nvidia Driver in Fedora12?

2010-03-13 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:20:20 +0800 严晶涛 yanjing...@innlab.net wrote: My classmate has bought a computer with GT220. When I download Nvidia Driver,use init 3 to run it. but it prompt that cannot find nvidia.ko.. I have searched Google,and changed menu.lst,added *nouveau.modeset=0 *This

Re: How to Install Nvidia Driver in Fedora12?

2010-03-13 Thread 严晶涛
Thank you! I'll have a try... 2010/3/14 Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:20:20 +0800 严晶涛 yanjing...@innlab.net wrote: My classmate has bought a computer with GT220. When I download Nvidia Driver,use init 3 to run it. but it prompt that cannot find nvidia.ko.. I have