How to Install Nvidia Driver in Fedora12?

[Fred Williams]

2010/3/15 Marcel Rieux <m.z.rieux at gmail.com>

> 2010/3/14 Marcel Rieux <m.z.rieux at gmail.com>:
> > 210/3/14 严晶涛 <yanjingtao at innlab.net>:
> >
> >> My classmate has bought a computer with GT220.
> >> When I download Nvidia Driver,use init 3 to run it.
> >> but it prompt that cannot find nvidia.ko..
> >> I have searched Google,and changed menu.lst,added nouveau.modeset=0
> >>
> >> This time,I have install Nvidia Driver success,but when I reboot,I can't
> >> login it,it's blank screen.
> >> I have try many times,I found,when I use init 3,and run rmmod
> nouveau,then I
> >> can use startx login to Gnome.
> >>
> >> But it's too troublesome,I want to know how to do,then I can turn on the
> >> computer and direct into Gnome...
> >
> > In my experience, the only instructions that work are here, at
> > rpmfusion, who provides the kernel module:
> >
> > http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia
>
> Maybe I should add that, if I were you, I'd forget about Nvidia
> drivers altogether. Nvidia offers no support for Linux and, since it's
> not open source, you don't get much from the community either. Even if
> the community wanted, without the source code, it would be minimal.
>
> My advice: stay with Nouveau.
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Out of curiosity, when does Nouveau plan to be able to offer the same 3D
capabilities, if even in alpha-experimental form? That's the only thing
keeping me from leaving the NVidia drivers for Nouveau.
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