Amin's Note

Please use an Nvidia driver with release 1.0.8756 or newer.



Please update your kernel to release 2.6.16-1.2080 or newer.

Either 'yum update kernel' or manually with FC5 Updates.

The default Fedora Core 5 kernel has a bug with respect to binary drivers.



Setup Livna Repository

[root@charon ~]# rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-5.rpm



Note Other than for drivers there can be some problems with the Livna repository,

hence I disable it by default:



[root@charon ~]# cd /etc/yum.repos.d/

[root@charon yum.repos.d]# mv livna.repo livna.repo.bkp

[root@charon yum.repos.d]# sed 's/enabled=1/enabled=0/' livna.repo.bkp > livna.repo



Install the nvidia driver through Livna:



[root@charon ~]# yum --enablerepo livna install kmod-nvidia



Then simply log out completely of Gnome or KDE and the Nvidia driver should load.

Test by running: '/usr/bin/glxgears' (included in the glx-utils RPM package).



Note on Livna



There are many possibilities that Livna will not work for you. Especially if your

kernel is modified, not from Fedora Updates, or much older.



Users without YUM



Navigate to http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/5/ and select your architecture: i386, x86_64 or ppc.

You will need 2 components: xorg driver and nvidia kernel module:



For xorg driver, select the one matching the latest Nvidia driver (1.0.8756)

ex: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-1.0.8756-1.lvn5



For nvidia kernel driver you MUST MATCH YOUR KERNEL

Use the uname command for the proper match.



For example:

[root@charon ~]# uname -rm

2.6.16-1.2080_FC5 i686

Selected: kmod-nvidia-1.0.8756-1.2.6.16_1.2080_FC5.i686.rpm



Install both files at the same time:

[root@charon fc5]# rpm -ivh kmod-nvidia-1.0.8756-1.2.6.16_1.2080_FC5.i686.rpm \

xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-1.0.8756-1.lvn5.i386.rpm



(If you had a previous version of these files before, upgrade with 'rpm -Uvh' instead)



SELinux users



Make the following changes to allow for the Nvidia driver and libraries to work properly:



[root@charon fc5]# setsebool -P allow_execstack=1

[root@charon fc5]# setsebool -P allow_execmod=1







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