Hi, I've just recently installed Fedora 7. I have a nvidia 7950GX2 GPU and can't seem to figure out how to install the drivers. I downloaded the latest linux driver from nvidia.com, but it won't run. The name of the driver is "NVIDIA-Linux-x86-100.14.11-pkg1.run". What do I need to do in order to install the driver? Thanks.
Nvidia drivers on Fedora
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Open a terminal:
run:
rpm -iv http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-7.rpm
then you can launch any GUI yum frontend or "yum install" the nvidia drivers
You can use yumex or kyum or Applications-> Add/Remove Software or whatever.
On the command line:
yum list |grep nvidia
will show you the nvidia drivers then you can do something like:
yum install kmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia
good luck
run:
rpm -iv http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-7.rpm
then you can launch any GUI yum frontend or "yum install" the nvidia drivers
You can use yumex or kyum or Applications-> Add/Remove Software or whatever.
On the command line:
yum list |grep nvidia
will show you the nvidia drivers then you can do something like:
yum install kmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia
good luck
karlhaines
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Also, in reply to your actual question, do:
root-prompt# sh nvidia-driver-that-you-downloaded.run
This will install the nvidia drivers using nvidia's installation method. You can install it through yum using a Fedora package as stated above, but the packages available may not be as new as the latest driver downloaded from nvidia. Have fun.
root-prompt# sh nvidia-driver-that-you-downloaded.run
This will install the nvidia drivers using nvidia's installation method. You can install it through yum using a Fedora package as stated above, but the packages available may not be as new as the latest driver downloaded from nvidia. Have fun.
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