[Fedora-Bangladesh] Trouble installing nVidia driver in fedora 13 beta

[Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor]

On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 13:15 +0600, Angel wrote:
> Install Fedora 13 final release.

Solved the problem by editing my xorg.conf. Thanks in advance :)

> 
> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Junayeed Ahnaf
> <zombiegenerator at gmail.com> wrote:
>         
>         
>         On 19 May 2010 15:45, Angel <angel at linux.org.bd> wrote:
>         
>                 Enable rpm fusion stable release (test release will
>                 mess up ur system):
>                 rpm -Uvh
>                 http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm   http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm
>                 
>                 Now try the kmod-nvidia driver, if its available for
>                 ur kernel. If not try the akmod-nvidia. Also install
>                 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.
>                 
>                 Type this commands:
>                 su -
>                 sed -i '/root=/s|$|
>                 rdblacklist=nouveau|' /boot/grub/grub.conf
>                 mv /boot/initramfs-$(uname
>                 -r).img /boot/initramfs-$(uname  -r)-nouveau.img
>                 dracut /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)
>                 
>                 Now edit xorg.conf:
>                 
>                 gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>                 
>                 and add
>                 
>                 Section "ServerFlags"
>                 Option "IgnoreABI" "true"
>                 EndSection
>                 
>         
>         
>         Well, it worked. But problem is now that I can't get back my
>         full resolution. Full resolution was 1280*1024 but now that
>         it's showing that max res is 1024*768. How to fix this up?
>          
>                 
>                 If still failed, then sure, its a bug. Just wait 1
>                 more week to release the final version. 
>                 
>                 I even enabled rawhide repo, n it fucked up my system
>                 twice.  
>                 
>                 
>                 
>                 On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Junayeed Ahnaf
>                 Nirjhor <zombiegenerator at gmail.com> wrote:
>                         I was trying to install nVidia driver in my
>                         Fedora Goddard beta. My
>                         graphics card is nVidia geforce 9800GT and
>                         8400SE. Right now I want to
>                         install 8400 SE driver. I've applied "su -c
>                         'yum -y install akmod-nvidia
>                         xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs'" that messed my box
>                         and I had to re-install
>                         everything. I'm using KDE. How can I install
>                         drivers? The default
>                         drivers doesn't support full 3D.
>                 
>                 
>                 
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Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor
Documentation Team,
Linux Mint Bangladesh,
Bogra.