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andrewmchugh · 2 Weeks Ago

Im trying to install the graphics card drivers on my m1330 with fedora 11 64bit

i download the driver and double clicked on it expecting it to be a installer but it did this..... pic attached

can anyone explain how i should go about installing the drivers .. thanks

tom.slick · 2 Weeks Ago

Chapter 4. Installing the NVIDIA Driver

Installation Using RPMFusion

esocid · 2 Weeks Ago

Check out the Fedora 11 guide in my sig, it'll help you out with getting everything else set up.

Set up your repos, RPM fusion is a great one to have, so add it, also required for this driver.

Code:

su -c 'rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/...ble.noarch.rpm'

su -c 'rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfr...ble.noarch.rpm'

yum update

then

Code:

su -c 'yum install akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs'

Should take effect immediately, don't remember. If not, reboot, or restart X:

Code:

su -c 'init 3'

reduces your run level

Code:

su -c 'init 5'

Kernel Klink · 2 Weeks Ago

weird how the last 50 Linux installs I've done all of the graphics (and everything else) drivers just worked out of the box, yet I hear so many people have driver issues.

tom.slick · 2 Weeks Ago

Most distros come with opensource drivers and the distros developers do a good job at making sure that there product works "out-of-the-box" with them. Most of the people having problems with graphics drivers are trying to install the proprietary drivers, IE the ones suppled by ATI and Nvidia. These drivers are not built for a specific distribution, but as a generic install for any distro. Also all the major releases have precompiled binaries for there release, examples rpmfusion for Fedora, openSuse nvidia repository, etc, and unless you've used them before you don't know about them. Most people revert to the "Windows way" and download then from the manufacturer and try to install just like in Windows. Just like the OP did. After that fails they usually wined up following a detailed tutorial and succeed. And as you said worked out of the box, the OP's install did work, they posted a screenshot, but I think they may be looking for something that provides better support for their hardware. The opensource drivers work, but the proprietary drivers work a lot better

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