yum install nvidia

lajnus · #1 17th October 2005, 05:10 PM

Hello hello!

I'm pretty new to this stuff, now you know!
I've been looking for some way to install the nvidia driver on my laptop. And figuerd out that the easiest way would be through yum. Guess what! it won't work waht do i do? i've read hoe to install the other way but i don't have a printer and i just can't remeber all the stuff in the tutorials. I'm thinking of this thread: http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=59937

My errors in the terminal when i try it is:

Error: Missing Dependency: nvidia-glx = 0:1.0.7174 is needed by package kernel-module-nvidia-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp
Error: Missing Dependency: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 is needed by package kernel-module-nvidia-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4

I have the kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 installed
i have also tryied to update my kernel. But when i did that i would'nt boot properly.

So you guys, do you have an easy explanation? I'm a beginner in the linux world.

trueblue · #2 17th October 2005, 05:20 PM

I don't know how to do it with yum but it is not so difficult using the driver from nvidia's website.

1) download the driver from nvidia's website
2) switch to runlevel 4 with the following command :
telinit 4
3) login as root
4) install the driver :
sh NVIDIA-...-.sh
5) edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and replace "nv" by "nvidia" in the device section (as described in nvidia's readme)
6) switch to runlevel 5
telinit 5

You have got to repeat those instruction each time you update your kernel.

Good luck.

brandor · #3 17th October 2005, 05:56 PM

http://www.fedorafaq.org/#nvidia

lajnus · #4 17th October 2005, 06:38 PM

Thanks for your replys!

>Trueblue I think i have to do it your way! i'll try anyway :-)

>brandor. I did that tutorial and ended up with the problems i wrote in my first messege.

Belive me i've googled, but after some time, a long time you just get frustrated and will ask insted.

lajnus · #5 18th October 2005, 07:12 PM

Okey...
I did what you said! First problem i had was when i installed it was that i didn't have the gcc(what ever that is). So i installed it somehow. Problem two, now i was enabeld to install nivida driver but when i change the xorg.conf and restarted the computer the nvidia logo flashes a couple of times then the screen goes black and after a while it'll ask me if a want to look at the som error screens and then i have the chance to do i new configuration from the basic display setup. As it was from the begining. I feel i'm back at square 1. What do i do?
I've search and read forums for 40 hours and every where you look it's diffrent solutions to the problem...(i've tried some of the suggested solutions, no succes, yet).
I'm not ready to give up linux yet, but if i don't get this card working i don't now. And since you folks want people to yuse linux! Right?
So please help me!!
Trublue you seem to be a nice person, what do i do?

lajnus · #6 18th October 2005, 11:50 PM

well well....
After two days of struggeling it finally works as i should! Now you know and won't be sleepless :-)
I thougth i had read it all on internet but finally after a mixture of a couple of tutorials and nvidia infos i solved it! Hurray..
Not to bad thoug, the first time i laid my hands on linux was three days ago.
Peace

trueblue · #7 19th October 2005, 06:39 AM

Well done !

For info, gcc is the c/c++ compiler. You need it to install the nvidia driver because you compile the driver yourself.

fweeee · #8 22nd October 2005, 03:53 AM

lajnas,

Would you mind letting us (well, me) what you did? I'm having a similar problem now. After 6 months of trouble free operation, using the drivers downloaded from nvidia, I thought that using yum to update the driver would save me from having to re-install the driver every time the kernel updated. Now it wont work, and even after uninstalling the drivers (via yum), it wont work with the drivers downloaded from nvidia.

**Finalzone** · #9 22nd October 2005, 08:24 AM

Basically, you need to go on rpm.livna.org website to download a package named livna-release.
That package will install livna repository then you will need to use the command

Code:

yum install kernel-modules-nvidia

yum should be able to handle nvidia-glx dependancy. If it does not know, use the command

Code:

yum install kernel-modules-nvidia nvidia-glx

Once you install it, press CTRL+ALT+Backspace to start hardware accelerator.
The advantage to use livna method is you don't need to touch xorg.conf and switch to console mode.

Remember that each time you update you kernel, you will need to manually update the kernel-modules. Probably in the future with the modularisation of X11-xorg, installing a driver will be easier.

lajnus · #10 24th October 2005, 06:07 PM

Hi!
Since i have a laptop i followed this one:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=59937

But i did some other change as well, but to tell you the truth i don't remember where it was and what it was. But I think it was something in a .conf file somewhere i changed SeLinux something... hope that helps a bit...
Good Luck