NVIDIA Driver

NotAGolf · 9 Sep 2009 at 12:42

I'm trying to install the latest nvidia driver on fedora 11. It's a bit of a nightmare as I'm new to linux. I've had several messages saying it can't find X,Y,Z so I've used the add/remove software to find the relevant thing it's asking for.

The latest error message is that the nvidia installer is "unable to find the kernel source tree for the currently running kernel...."

Is there a program that can look through my files and download all the necessary bits and pieces? I think I've seen something like that called Envy for Ubuntu that sorts out the whole install process for you.

Thanks.

NotAGolf · 9 Sep 2009 at 14:53

Cheers guys but no luck.

.walls:

Running "yum search kernel | grep sources" gave me:

kcbench-data.noarch : Kernel sources to be used by kcbench
kcbench-data-2.6.25.noarch : Kernel sources from 2.6.25 to be used by kcbench

Running "yum install kernel-sources" gave me:

Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Setting up Install Process
No package kernel-sources available.
Nothing to do

Running: "yum install kernel-devel" gave me:

Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Setting up Install Process
Package kernel-devel-2.6.30.5-43.fc11.i586 already installed and latest version
Nothing to do

Pingwing:

I'm almost certain I saw the same trick on another website but it didn't work. I get a "No package kmod-nvidia available." message

Any other ideas?

NotAGolf · 9 Sep 2009 at 18:49

Ah I missed one of the kernel downloads in the add/remove software section. Driver installed ok......didn't fix either of the two things I wanted it to though... I can't enabled Desktop effects, and my screen is shifted about 40 pixels to the right!

Man linux is hard work!

NotAGolf · 15 Sep 2009 at 20:15

Sorry for the long delay. I've had a job interview to prep for!

I'm trying to enable the desktop effects through the GUI (System -> Preferences -> Desktop effects). It's only a small dialogue box, two checkboxes are greyed out and there's just a button saying "enable desktop effects". If I press this it takes a few seconds then I just get a plain error message saying "desktop effects could not be enabled".

I checked glxinfo and it says that direct rendering is disbabled.

I think I've royally ballsed things up. I checked my xorg.conf file and it's completely empty! Don't know how that happened. I think it must have happened when I installed a few applications through "add/remove software". It may have happened after I installed the new nvidia driver actually.

One of the things I installed CompizConfig Settings Manager. I checked in here and vsync is disabled, although I don't think the settings in here have an effect, as you can choose settings like "enable 3D windows", "Desktop cube", "Rotate cube", and it makes no difference.

Any ideas? (Sorry for being so simple!)