Fedora Core 5

AJUK · 29 Jun 2006 at 14:44

Anyone tried this, if so how easy is it to install nVidia drivers for either a 6800 Go or a 6600, I am having no luck with Easy Ubuntu, Automatix and manual install with Ubuntu?

riddlermarc · 29 Jun 2006 at 15:03

http://www.fedorafaq.org/#nvidia

AJUK · 29 Jun 2006 at 15:51

I'll give it a go. Ta .

Augmented · 30 Jun 2006 at 00:20

Should be a piece of cake, but you might need to dive in and edit your xorg.conf (/etc/X11/xorg.conf) as installing via yum doesn't always modify it correctly.

However, I prefer to download the official nvidia drivers and install that way. If you want to do this, make sure you have your kernel headers available and installed via:

Code:

yum install kernel-devel

or if using an SMP kernel:

Code:

yum install kernel-smp-devel

AJUK · 30 Jun 2006 at 08:31

Thanks, I am having trouble connecting my wireless at the moment but when I have sorted that out I can concentrate on gfx.

riddlermarc · 30 Jun 2006 at 08:36

AJUK said:
Thanks, I am having trouble connecting my wireless at the moment but when I have sorted that out I can concentrate on gfx.

Wireless on FC5 is renowned to be a bit of a mare but easily sorted.. check out www.fedoraforum.org and search for ndiswrapper, should sort you out

AJUK · 30 Jun 2006 at 08:58

riddlermarc said:
Wireless on FC5 is renowned to be a bit of a mare but easily sorted.. check out www.fedoraforum.org and search for ndiswrapper, should sort you out

I am going to connect the old fashiooned way tonight, with a wire! :eek:

Then, when I have net access, I should be able to sort things out. I ma quite impressed with Fedora so far, it is very quick and seems to be a very well balanced distro but certainly not as easy as Ubuntu.