How to Install Nvidia Driver in Fedora12?

[Marcel Rieux]

2010/3/14 Fred Williams <dukederf at googlemail.com>:
> 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.

  Nouveau 3D acceleration testing

Bruno Wolff noted[1] that experimental 3D acceleration for nouveau was
now available in the mesa-dri-drivers-experimental package, and asked
whether it was yet at a point where the developers would be interested
in bug reports. Adam Williamson promised to pass the question along to
the nouveau maintainer.

   1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-February/088305.html

From:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue212#Nouveau_3D_acceleration_testing





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