Saved me already three times (with each new kernel update) !!! Works as is for Fedora Core 3 with FX 5200 graphics card.

Many thanks indeed !!!!

no problem, just glad to see the instructions work.

up to 3300 veiws, yah!

anyone out there?

Roger

sdat1333

I followed your instructions to the T on the Nvidia set up and all I can say to you is Thank You, Thank You and Thank You. I finally got my card working properly and can now run Americas Army and it is wonderful. Did I mention Thank You!

Well you are certainly welcome. Apparently these instructions have been a great help to many, and this makes me happy.

I know it is not customary for the author of a thread to do this, but would it be possible to make this thread a sticky? I have seen many ppl asking questions about the nvidia drivers, and I beleive that this would be best on the first page.

That first post is the best how-to I have ever read. I have never had 3d acceleration until now.
It took me a matter of minutes to do what I have been trying to do for months. I say make it a sticky,
at least in the fedora forum. Thanks sdat1333

Hi sdat1333
The lq forums have a section called tutorials where users can submit HOW-TO's. You may put it there.
They already have a guide of how-to install NVIDIA in Mandrake.

Also, the first non-GUI editor i used in Unix was pico, which is a part of pine (a famous mail-client), and is really basic and easy to use. Red-hat /fedora have a extreme policy on the software they provide. Pine has not a GNU license so they don't use it (that's why they don't provide MP3 support i think). But this is why nano was created, which is a GNU pico - clone. I wasn't aware of the the existence of nano, that's why i told you to use vi/vim, which may be one of the best editors, but is also pretty frustrating for a newbie.

Also for people that use a via chipset, there are some options you can enable to gain performance, but you have to extract the driver first, before you install it, i have done this, but i can't remember it any more. If i find the link i will post it to u.

The only problem is that people do not seem to use the tutorials pages and that's a shame. people ask the same things all the time without searching a little bit.

WOW, 4000 views.

4200 views!

LQ.com won't take my tutorial, I assume because somebody has already written a generic installing nvidia drivers for linux tutorial, but those steps didn't work for me. Oh well, it was worth a try.

-Sean

guide worked for me ... thanks
i hit 12000 on glxgears .. and enemy territory is running way nicer than on my xp install

Thats awesome dude! Glad to see linux working out for you.

-Sean

105263 frames in 5.0 seconds = 21052.600 FPS
well ok, smallest window size possible and not showing that desktop but any way ;-)
~1682 fps normal
165 fps fullscreen (1600)