For beginner that I am, that's exactly what was needed. Thank you, it brings FEDORA the top :)

That was too easy. It's now past being easier than windows....this it treading into Mac territory now. :)

Warning!

this does NOT work with older* NVIDIA cards

(unless I'm missing something about the livna drivers)

*eg. GeForce 2MX

Hi,

I would agree that the new driver doesn't appear to work on older cards. I have a GEForce FX Go5200 in my Toshiba P25-S5092, and x won't start at all with the proprietary drivers installed.

I had to uninstall the drivers to get x to function:
sudo yum erase *nvidia*
or, su -
yum erase *nvidia*

(It's worth knowing how to get rid of them from the command line because x won't work...)

This guide was created on a 5 years old GeForce FX 5200 Nvidia video card and it works very well.

I just saw the response to my post that the guide was built using the same graphics card that I stated it wouldn't work with...
I'll have to do a little more research, and determine what the differences are. I don't claim to be a Linux GURU, but I do have close to 10 years experience using Linux, and I haven't had these types of problems getting a video driver to work in years. I'm using the 32 bit (i686) version of Fedora 9; fresh install. My Video card has 32 megs of ram on it. The processor is a 2.8 Ghz Pentium 4 with 2 Gigs of ram. When the driver is installed, the screen flashes 8 to 10 times trying to get x to start, and then drops back to a console session. I'll let you know if I have any better luck with it. I'll try the instructions again.

Jerry, our GeForce FX 5200 graphics card has 64 MB, and the computer has an AMD Sempron 2800 CPU and 512 RAM

Hi Jerry, try this:
Rename or move the following file:
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
then reboot.
good luck.

I just noticed that NVidia posted an updated driver on June 11th.

The update works great, and I can now use the avante-window-navigator.

Thank you!

Nvidia didn't release the legacy drivers yet for xorg 1.5, but it is on their plans

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=1678425

Will Compiz Fusion Run full 3D desktop effects using these drivers?

Yes, it will work!

i have been trwaling the fadora forums for 2 days now looking for a way to get my nvidia gf6600 to work better.
i have no idea who was/ is behind this step by step guide but you have my gratitude.

i have moved over to linux from xp as a main os for my business but found that there just isnt enough explained in guides like this and was about to revert back to microsoft point and click.

so again thank you now i can show others where to come :)

The described installation process worked a treat! However, I now have an odd problem in that I cannot get full resolution on my display. The system is an Optron 175 with 2 GB of RAM and an Nvidia GT8600 video card connected to a Dell 2000FP LCD monitor. The native resolution is 1600x1200 and the best that the System-Administration-Display will offer is 1152x864 and under the HW tab the card is now shown as "unknown". Any suggestions or hints would be appreciated

i did't work for my Nvidia Gforce 7200gs card

I have a kernel version which ends in 14 and the yum instaler demands (and tries to install) a kernel version which ends in 9.
Even after accepting the installation of this older kernel it didnt work. I finally wiped out my hard disk and returned to the the 14 kernel which comes with the distribution I have purchased.
Does anybody have any idea on how to fix it? My v-card is GeForce 7400.

Great post!
Worked fine with me, except that I was using the PAE kernel by default and the driver refused to load. Changed to the non PAE (I only have 4G of ram) and everything was fine.

i am using the Nvidia geforce4 MX 4000 128 MBgraphics card on fedora 9, i have tried evey thing i caould imagine to get my driver working but nothing works.the installation is smooth but when the system reboot th e screen blins for few seconds and then falls back to the console mode.i would be great if any one helps me out....................

Very helpful, I have tried everything on the net to get this working. Now I can play eve on linux :D
Using 7800gs

i get the following error while installing drivers


--> Missing Dependency: kernel-uname-r = 2.6.25.14-108.fc9.x86_64 is needed by package kmod-nvidia-2.6.25.14-108.fc9.x86_64-173.14.12-3.lvn9.x86_64 (livna)
Error: Missing Dependency: kernel-uname-r = 2.6.25.14-108.fc9.x86_64 is needed by package kmod-nvidia-2.6.25.14-108.fc9.x86_64-173.14.12-3.lvn9.x86_64 (livna)

Hi Hari,

You can get around this problem by using the akmod-nvidia module instead. It builds a compatible driver for the kernel version your running (you have probably done a yum update), simply enter the following:

~ $ su

~ # yum -y install akmod-nvidia

Then do a reboot. On first start you will more than likely get get some warnings and errors appearing (it has to first build the drivers for your system)....just wait it out until you're prompted to login. Do another reboot and hopefully your system will start next time round with the glorious nvidia driver chugging away merrily.

Ciao, Phill.

i was able to solve it. But, now i have a different problem

[root@localhost hari]# glxinfo | grep direct
Error: glXCreateContext failed
X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
Major opcode of failed request: 4 (X_DestroyWindow)
Resource id in failed request: 0x0
Serial number of failed request: 24
Current serial number in output stream: 26
Locking assertion failure. Backtrace:
#0 /usr/lib64/libxcb-xlib.so.0 [0x36a540097c]
#1 /usr/lib64/libxcb-xlib.so.0(xcb_xlib_lock+0x17) [0x36a5400af7]
#2 /usr/lib64/libX11.so.6 [0x36a584c610]
#3 /usr/lib64/libX11.so.6(XESetCloseDisplay+0x43) [0x36a582e693]
#4 /usr/lib64/nvidia/libGL.so.1 [0x1897b2]

i had the same error.... try instead yum instead

yum -y install akmod-nvidia ( and not kmod )

Worked great! Nvidia drivers installed no problem for Geforce 5500 card. Thanks- love it when things go as planned!

I have a problem similar to Jerry's. I'm trying to install the Nvidia drivers on an old Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop, and am getting the same flickering problem when X tries to start. My Inspiron has GeForce2Go video with 32MB RAM. Since there are no Livna kmod-nvidia-legacy drivers in the standard tree, I tried the akmod-nvidia-legacy drivers from the testing tree - specifically the akmod-nvidia-legacy.i686 71.86.06-1.lvn9 drivers, but got the same flickering for a few seconds when X tried to start after a reboot.

Checking the X logs, it seems the driver fails to load - something about an unallocated pointer.

Any hints?

After "yum -y install kmod-nvidia" I get 404 errors and then an error saying "Cannot retrive repository metadata..."

When I test direct rendering, it says "yes"

When I try to enable effects, it doesn't work.

I'm running an 8800GTS 320 on a 680i motherboard.

I Have the same problem, i have a Geforce mx2.

But i am gonna try more forums, If i can get at solution, I Will post it here.

Kai

The nvidia-x11-drv-173.08-1.fc9.i386.rpm driver link is broken!

The driver gen worke3d a treat on KDE 4.1.1 with a Quadro FX1400. Many thanks

I followed your guide and everything was kosher until after installing Avant window Navigator, I open it and then it instantly quits. WTF? can anyone shed light on this?

When I try to install AWN, I get the following error messages:

Error: Missing Dependency: gnome-python2-extras = 2.19.1-18.fc9 is needed by package gnome-python2-libegg-2.19.1-18.fc9.i386 (installed)
Error: Missing Dependency: gnome-python2-extras = 2.19.1-18.fc9 is needed by package gnome-python2-gtkhtml2-2.19.1-18.fc9.i386 (installed)

Then, when I try yum -y install gnome-python2-extras-2.19.1-18 ,fc9:

Package gnome-python2-extras-2.19.1-18.fc9.i386 installed and not available
Nothing to do

I also tried the point and click method, downloading the python2-extras online, but I still got dependency errors. I'm pretty new at this . . . am I going about it the wrong way?