6800 on linux

[heedoyiu]

i have a pny 6800 on fedora core 3 and i can not get a driver installed right. i tried downloading the ones from the nivida website yet i am a linux noob and i do not know how to install them on the os

 

[xtknight]

Originally posted by: heedoyiu
i have a pny 6800 on fedora core 3 and i can not get a driver installed right. i tried downloading the ones from the nivida website yet i am a linux noob and i do not know how to install them on the os

If you don't get a response at this forum, try asking at linuxquestions.org. I'm not sure how to install nVidia drivers, I've only installed ATI on Linux thus far. You will first have to figure out which version of XFree86/Xorg you have to make sure you download the right drivers.

 

[nitromullet]

http://www.nvidia.com/object/l...lay_ia32_1.0-6629.html

1) download the driver file, NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1.run
2) make the file executable by issuing the following command:

chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1.run

3) become root, use the "su" command and give it the root pw at the prompt.
4) run the script with the following command:

sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1.run

5) edit your X Config file to use the "nvidia" driver instead of "nv" or whatever else it may be using right now.

6) You may have to configure your system to load the nvidia driver module at boot. I'm not sure how to do this on a fedora box, but I think all you need to do is to add a line to your /etc/modules.conf file as follows:

alias video nvidia

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That's pretty much all I had to do to get mine working with Gentoo.

...all of this is explained in more detail if you need more help in the README located at: <a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-6629/README.txt">ftp://download.nvidia.com/X.......0-6629/README.txt</a>

If you don't get a response at this forum, try asking at linuxquestions.org. I'm not sure how to install nVidia drivers, I've only installed ATI on Linux thus far. You will first have to figure out which version of XFree86/Xorg you have to make sure you download the right drivers

You won't have to worry about that with nVidia drivers. The install script is pretty "smart", and will download and install the appropriate drivers from your machine. I don't imagine that this should be too complicated with a Fedora box, since Fedora Core is one of the most commonly used Linux distributions out there.

 

[heedoyiu]

now i got some server problem now it says somthing about closing it and i have no idea what to do about closing a server program