Not able to install nvidia drivers

[Ian Malone]

On 6 December 2011 18:06, Mike Chambers <mike at miketc.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-12-06 at 06:02 -0700, Lawrence Graves wrote:
>> I am still not able to install my nvidia drivers and I am not able to
>> communicate in technical terms therefore I was sending pictures of my
>> screen and pictures of my folders so those who were helping me would
>> have something to work with. Yesterday I received at least 10 refusals
>> of information sent.
>> Will somebody be so kind as to tell me or show me how to send the
>> necessary information so that I can find resolve in this matter.  This
>> has been going on since the release of Fedora 16 and there has been not
>> fix for this problem.
>> If somebody has the ability to remotely attach themselves to my laptop
>> and see the problem, it would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Maybe you can get better help by saying what the exact problem is your
> having?  Are you using yum to install it from rpmfusion, such as yum
> install akmod-nvidia?  Or you trying it from scratch/source code?  Or is
> it installing but it never starts up or you system doen't load the
> module?  Are you blacklisting nouveau module?
>

We've been through some of this, see the thread: "Bug 648732 – Intel
wireless broken on 11n for many users"
Answers are:
via yum
not sure
trying to

> You also might get better help also by going to rpmfusion.org web site
> and find their mailing list and ask there too.
>

This may be worthwhile.

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imalone