
November 20, 2009 22:15 by
Downloaded the Linux Fedora 12 release yesterday and I have to say its much better than Fedora 11 was on its release. I seem to have got nearly everything working. Drivers for my NVidia graphics card were not available on the release of Fedora 11 and I expected the same for this new release.
However I seem to have got them working with only a couple of problems and the 3D accelerated software (Google Earth and some of the 3D Screensavers) that I have tried works much better proving that the drivers are installed and working.
I always use the NVidia drivers from NVidia themselves. Downloadable from Here. To run this binary that installs the drivers certain things need to be setup.
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The installer must be run with the x server stopped. I do this by opening a command line terminal and typing 'sudo init 3' (Assuming that you are configured on the sudoers list, if not the I think it would be 'su -c init 3' and you would need to know the root password.)
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Once the x server is shut down login with root priviledges.
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You may need the gcc compiler installed, this can be done from yum: 'yum install gcc'.
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The kernel devel and source packages are also required. I am not going to give instuctions on how to do this here as I copied the information from elsewhere myself. The instuctions can be found Here. I realise these instuctions are for Fedora 9 but the steps are the same. Using Yum for all steps this is really easy. This website is an excellent resource for setting up a great Fedora environment, I certainly would not have carried on using Linux without this site to refer to.
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Once these steps are done it should be possible to run the NVidia bin file and the drivers will be installed. Enjoy, Try installing Google Earth first and running a before and after test to really see the difference.I needed to change SELinux to 'permissive' to get Google Earth to run.
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