Re: Correct instructions for installing NVidia proprietary driver on Fedora 13?

[Andre Costa]

Hi Steven,

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 16:59, Steven P. Ulrick
<lists-fedora(a)afolkey2.net&gt;wrote:

>  Hello Everyone,
>  If the output of "/sbin/lspci | grep VGA" is:
>  03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G94 [GeForce 9600 GT]
>  (rev
>  a1)
>
>  are the correct instructions for installing the proprietary NVidia driver
>  still
>  located here:
>  http://fedorasolved.org/video-solutions/nvidia-yum-kmod
>
>  I have tried the above referenced instructions a couple of times, with the
>  same,
>  bad results...  I am now going to try again, paying special attention to
>  the
>  "Troubleshooting" section...  With this exact system, I have been so used
>  to
>  everything working (up until I installed Fedora 13) that I have never even
>  had
>  to look at the troubleshooting  steps for these instructions before.
>
>  I will get back to you with whatever happens.
>  
I have a 9800 GT, and all I had to do for F13 was enable rpmfusion repo and
install kmod-nvidia; after that Nvidia driver was already used on the next
boot, but it didn't recognize my dual-head setup (which was expected). I
tried using nvidia-settings (as root) to configure dual-head, but I had some
trouble setting it exactly the way I wanted; then I just replaced
/etc/X11/xorg.conf with the one from my F12 /etc backup and that was it.
Much easier than with F12 =)

HTH

Andre