On 28/10/2007, Karl Larsen <k5di(a)zianet.com> wrote:
You might have a nvidia video card on your motherboard. There
are
two choices here. Try to use the nvidia or turn it off and plug in your
old known video card. Today I wish I had done the latter because using
nvidia with f7 is a pain.
I really do not see a new Linux user ever getting his/her computer
working with nvidia. You need to go to the nvidia web page and get a
tarball and install it, not a new person's thing, or you can get 4 rpm
files and learn to use --nodeps at the proper time.
Firstly, Fedora will work out of the box with nvidia cards using the
free/OSS drivers. They may not yet properly support 3D, but they do
work and give you a graphical interface.
At that point, if you do want the extra 3D glits, installing the
proprietory NVidia drivers is as trivial as this:
As root:
1) rpm -ivh
http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-7.rpm
2) rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-livna
3) yum install kmod-nvidia
That is ALL there is to it. You're making your life overly difficult.