On Sunday 30 April 2006 6:59 pm, Dan wrote:
Keith Powell wrote:
> On Sunday 30 April 2006 2:39 pm, Bart Couvreur wrote:
>>
>> To install nvidia drivers:
>> # yum install kmod-nvidia
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Bart
>
>Hello Bart, and thanks for the welcome.
>
> I tried your method of installing the nvidia driver, but it
> didn't work.
>
> For information, I went into text mode and typed
> yum install kmod-nvidia.
> I got:
>
> Loading "installonly plugin"
> Setting up Installation process
> Setting up repositories
> core
> updates
> extras
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> Parsing package install arguments
> No match for argument: kmod-nvidia
> Nothing to do.
>
> I tried editing the xorg.conf file to change the driver from "nv"
> to "nvidia", but that didn't work.
>
You haven't messed anything up, just tried to do things out of
order. For one:
The kmod-nvidia package _is_ in livna, so if you don't have that
repository installed, yum can't find it. :)
And secondly, without that package installed, putting "nvidia" as
the driver name will not work because it refers Xorg to the nvidia
binary drivers, which you didn't have installed.
No harm done.
-Dan
Dan,
Thanks for your reply.
A couple of small points to clarify things.
When I ran "yum install kmod-nvidia" I thought it would possibly run
a script which would find the package from a repository and install
it. This 'installation by a script' is used in other distributions.
Wrong!
When I got those messages, I wondered if the driver was installed, but
the xorg.conf file needed editing to change the driver (as is
required with other distros I have tried). Wrong again!
Cheers
Keith.