nvidia on inspiron

[John Pilkington]

On 09/08/13 09:43, Patrick Dupre wrote:
>
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Marko Vojinovic
>> Sent: 08/09/13 10:32 AM
>> To: users at lists.fedoraproject.org
>> Subject: Re: nvidia on inspiron
>>
>> On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 10:20:11 +0200
>> "Patrick Dupre" <pdupre at gmx.com> wrote:
>>> I reinstall a fedora 19 and I am experiencing troubles with the
>>> graphics apparently.
>>> With the previous installation fedora 14. I had to install:
>>> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia
>>> nvidia-settings
>>> nvidia-xconfig
>>> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs
>>> and run:
>>> nvidia-xconfig
>>>
>>> Should I do the same again?
>>
>> Most probably, the only thing you need to install is the "kmod-nvidia"
>> package from rpmfusion repo. It will pull in everything else you need.
>> I never needed to run nvidia-xconfig or similar utilities, and I don't
>> trust them to do a proper configuration.
>>
>> If you need to change resolution away from the optimal one (whatever
>> reason be for wanting that), I suggest that you use xrandr. It is
>> by far the most proper way to configure the display. You may want to
>> familiarize yourself with "man xrandr".
>>
>> HTH, :-)
>> Marko
>>
> OK,
> Thank
>
> Now
> yum install kmod-nvidia
> gives:
> Packages skipped because of dependency problems:
>      1:kmod-nvidia-319.32-2.fc19.i686 from rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
>      1:kmod-nvidia-3.10.3-300.fc19.i686-319.32-2.fc19.i686 from rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
>      1:xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-319.32-7.fc19.i686 from rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
>      1:xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-319.32-7.fc19.i686 from rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
>
> It seems that there are some confusion with kmod-nvidia
> Which one?

I suspect that the answer may be 'none of the above' for your machine. 
They are probably for more recent hardware.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html