I need help installing Nvidia driver in Fedora 11 64 bit please

[Gizmo]

For the more adventurous, here's how <I> do it:

su root
init 3
wget whatever-the-latest-nvidia-package-is
./whatever-the-package-name-is
reboot

The downside to manually installing the nvidia drivers is that whenever you install a new kernel, X won't come up until you recompile the drivers as well, whereas with yum and Package Kit using the RPM Fusion repo, you get both automatically.

[dsio]

To shut down the X server, init 3 as root typically handles that on Fedora.

[ThunderRd]

Originally Posted by Gizmo

The downside to manually installing the nvidia drivers is that whenever you install a new kernel, X won't come up until you recompile the drivers as well...

The .run script handles compiling the driver as long as the source or headers are installed, at least in my experience, so I just re-run the installer if I install a new kernel. dkms is supposed to take care of this but I find it simply doesn't work very well.

Originally Posted by dsio

To shut down the X server, init 3 as root typically handles that on Fedora.

Thanks for that, I figured there would be a better way than the one I found in my search.

Would "init 5" then start X?

[Aedan]

Yup, it sure would. The init command switches between the different runlevels.

level 1 is a single user system.
level 3 is a full multiuser system without X.
level 5 is a full multiuser system with X.

[dsio]

Originally Posted by Áedán

Yup, it sure would. The init command switches between the different runlevels.

level 1 is a single user system.
level 3 is a full multiuser system without X.
level 5 is a full multiuser system with X.

Those standard runlevels don't however apply to ubuntu and it's derivitives.
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[ThunderRd]

Right, thx for that guys...

[Daniel ~]

Originally Posted by Gizmo

The best thing to do is to have Dan install the RPMFusion repo, and let it install and update his nVidia drivers automagically.


Dan, you need to click on the links below, in order, while running Firefox. Once you clicked on the link Firefox will ask you how to Open the file. Here you can simply use the default and open the file with the default application 'Package Installer'. Then Firefox will call Package Kit, which asks Do you want to install this file ?. Click OK to begin install; Package Kit then will complain about a Missing security signature; once you tell Package Kit to install the package nevertheless it will move on and install it. That's all.

you need to click on this link first: http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/...ble.noarch.rpm

And this link second: http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfr...ble.noarch.rpm

After that, go to your terminal, su to root and then type:

yum install kmod-nvidia

That should pull in the latest 185.18.36 nvidia drivers for your kernel.

Thanks Thunder RD! You kept hope alive! ":O} I'll give this a try later today Gizmo! TIA!

[Daniel ~]

Things didn't go quite as planned. It kept saving the files rather than installing them (yes I clicked install.}

I tried anyway in Terminal and got this result:

[Daniel@localhost ~]$ su
Password:
[root@localhost Daniel]# yum install kmod-nvidia
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Setting up Install Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package kmod-nvidia.x86_64 0:185.18.36-1.fc11.3 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: kmod-nvidia-2.6.30.9-90.fc11.x86_64 >= 185.18.36-1.fc11.3 for package: kmod-nvidia-185.18.36-1.fc11.3.x86_64
--> Running transaction check
---> Package kmod-nvidia-2.6.30.9-90.fc11.x86_64.x86_64 0:185.18.36-1.fc11.3 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

================================================== ==============================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
================================================== ==============================
Installing:
kmod-nvidia x86_64 185.18.36-1.fc11.3 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates 28 k
Updating for dependencies:
kmod-nvidia-2.6.30.9-90.fc11.x86_64
x86_64 185.18.36-1.fc11.3 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates 3.1 M

Transaction Summary
================================================== ==============================
Install 1 Package(s)
Upgrade 1 Package(s)

Total download size: 3.1 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
(1/2): kmod-nvidia-185.18.36-1.fc11.3.x86_64.rpm | 28 kB 00:00
(2/2): kmod-nvidia-2.6.30.9-90.fc11.x86_64-185.18.36-1.f | 3.1 MB 00:04
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total 613 kB/s | 3.1 MB 00:05
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Updating : kmod-nvidia-2.6.30.9-90.fc11.x86_64-185.18.36-1.fc11.3 1/3
Installing : kmod-nvidia-185.18.36-1.fc11.3.x86_64 2/3
Cleanup : kmod-nvidia-2.6.30.9-90.fc11.x86_64-185.18.36-1.fc11.x 3/3

Installed:
kmod-nvidia.x86_64 0:185.18.36-1.fc11.3

Dependency Updated:
kmod-nvidia-2.6.30.9-90.fc11.x86_64.x86_64 0:185.18.36-1.fc11.3

Complete!
[root@localhost Daniel]#

I got about tweenty of the pop ups shown in the attchment...

[Gizmo]

What drivers are you running right now?

[chrisbard]

Guys I really don't mean to annoy the hell out of you but really WTF?

[Gizmo]

Oh, like you've never encountered a Windows system where the configuration was wack beyond belief?

Daniel is, and always has been, a special case. In part this is a function of his dyslexia, combined with his natural curiousity.

[chrisbard]

Leave Dan alone, hes fine, it's linucs I am talking about !

[Daniel ~]

Don't get confused Chris...it's Fedora your talking about, not Linux... Mint 7 is fine always is! Fedora usually is. Linux means never having to say "it's MS, I'm stuck with it until and if they fix it..."

[Daniel ~]

Originally Posted by Gizmo

What drivers are you running right now?

I'm in mint...I'll get back to ya when I get through my mail and reboot...":O}

[Daniel ~]

Looks OK from here (see pic) but I can't use Alien Arena (See pic) ":O}

[chrisbard]

"no free drivers for..." u kidding me so you have to pay for drivers in linucs? Thats a new one

[Gizmo]

Originally Posted by Daniel ~

Looks OK from here (see pic) but I can't use Alien Arena (See pic) ":O}

Dan, someone else is gonna have to help you with that one, as I haven't a clue. I don't play any games on my computers (Windows OR Linux) any more, so I've no experience with setting them up.

Chris

Originally Posted by chrisbard

"no free drivers for..." u kidding me so you have to pay for drivers in linucs? Thats a new one

No, it means that there are no free (as in freedom, not beer) drivers. See, in the world of Linux, we have drivers that are open source (and thus free for people to download the source and modify; that's the 'free' part, as in 'freedom'), and some drivers that, regretably, are still closed source and proprietary (and thus NOT free for people to download the source and modify).

In the world of Windows, I can't recall the last time I installed a 'free' as in 'freedom' driver. In the world of Linux, that's the status with the VAST MAJORITY of drivers.

[Daniel ~]

My This is fun! LOL

I tried init 3 as root and screen went instantly black! (YEA TEAM Fedora!)

Rebooted, all is well. so I tried Gizmo RPM method again and got the site this time (Think i was just busy or down yesterday...

I'll try a few things and let you guys know how badly Fedora has messed this up! ":O}

[Daniel ~]

Hmmmm. I can't seem to get past init 3 blanking my monitor and not much seems to work with out first using init 3.

Unsure as how to properly implement the command you gave as an alternative Gizmo, so I tried a bunch of stuff...here's what got closest to working for me (still not init 3 capable...so that may be the fly in the ointment...

--2009-11-06 08:53:34-- http://nvidia-linux-x86_64-190.42-pk...90.42-pkg0.run
Resolving nvidia-linux-x86_64-190.42-pkg0.run.... failed: Name or service not known.
wget: unable to resolve host address `nvidia-linux-x86_64-190.42-pkg0.run.'
[root@localhost Daniel]# wget NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-190.42-pkg0.run
--2009-11-06 08:53:58-- http://nvidia-linux-x86_64-190.42-pkg0.run/
Resolving nvidia-linux-x86_64-190.42-pkg0.run... failed: Name or service not known.
wget: unable to resolve host address `nvidia-linux-x86_64-190.42-pkg0.run'
[root@localhost Daniel]# wget NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-190.42-pkg0.run./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-190.42-pkg0.run
--2009-11-06 08:54:41-- http://nvidia-linux-x86_64-190.42-pk...90.42-pkg0.run
Resolving nvidia-linux-x86_64-190.42-pkg0.run.... failed: Name or service not known.
wget: unable to resolve host address `nvidia-linux-x86_64-190.42-pkg0.run.'

[dsio]

yea, that's wgetting a malformed url.

btw, you really don't need to hang on to fedora. Primary reason you had it was that at the time you were learning it and it was handy to have the same one I'm on, if you find Mint more to your liking it might be worth sticking to the one.