FC5: Ati or Nvidia Drivers



Here is a Ati/Nvidia driver installation howto. I wrote it again to prevent confusion with my previous post FC5 Test 2: Nvidia Finally Successful, as well as to explain why we are having problems with the installation of non-gpl kernel modules on FC5.



The kernel-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 shipped with FC5 disallows the loading of any non-GPL modules.



Hence to use Ati/Nvidia drivers, you should update your kernel.



It is recommended that for Fedora Core 5, Ati or Nvidia drivers should be pulled down from livna repositories.



To start using the rpm.livna.org repository in yum, simply install the livna-release-5 rpm package:



rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-5.rpm



Till now (25/03/2006), there are no kernel updates in fedora-core repositories. But soon it will be. That is why we will be using the kernel available on, updates-testing repositories.



For Ati users:



yum --enablerepo=livna-testing --enablerepo=updates-testing install kmod-fglrx



For Nvidia users:



yum --enablerepo=livna-testing --enablerepo=updates-testing install kmod-nvidia



Finally, reboot :)



If you have a smp kernel, use kmod-smp-nvidia instead of kmod-nvidia.







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