Okay well when I try and install the freaking RPM for my cards it does all this crap then at the end it says FATAL: Nvidia Module Not Found.

Why does it do that?

How do I access the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file via the text mode?

Try these steps:

1) Login to your system as root

yum update kernel

restart to new kernel

2) Login again as root

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

yum install kmod-nvidia

3) Edit your xorg.conf file:

vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf

find string driver "nv"

then press "insert" button, move cursor to nv, and change it to "nvidia"

also find the line "load dri", and delete it

to save changes, press esc to exit edit mode, then press ":" and type wq (write, quit).

4) Restart your computer (reboot)

If you see nvidia logo - then everything is 0k (on some screens you can't see this, cause it appears only for a few secs), anyway, if everything is 0k, after succesfull desktop view, open terminal and type there glxgears, to see your fps, and also glxinfo | grep direct, to see if direct rendering is enabled.

Good luck!

less is like vi, but it only reads, it can't edit the file

Thank you very much for this man. I will post this over at Fedora Forums too if it works like I am sure it will because many others are in the same boat as me.

Was glad to help you . Hope, you will enjoy linux.

Cheers,

Okay I did everything without a hitch except step 3. How do I find with the console? I tried almost every button on the keyboard but didn't find out how to do it lol. Sorry for my noobiness.

So far it seems PHP is easier than this lol.

Actually I meant just to scroll with your keyboard, navigate to the line where you see "nv", there should be a section called [Device] or somethig, what regarding find, I think ":" then "/" (slash), also you can try another program - mc (remember Norton Commander? It's almost the same!).

How do you run the MC program? Also do I scroll with the arrows or page up/page down?

You can scroll by arrows, pageup/down, even i,j,k,l (I think)

You can install mc just via yum

yum install mc

and run it, as - "mc"

There you can edit files with F4 button, and scroll through folders just selectinh folder, and pressing enter, to go back, go to the top of the page. You can switch between panes with Tab key

K if I can't get this way to work then I will do it through the MC thing. Is there any Windows tool to access the partition and the file from here through a text editor and just speed up the process? I am sure there has to be something like that?

I have partition magic maybe it has a tool for that.

Try

www.fs-driver.org

But be careful, cause notepad reads unix text files incorrectly, so backup before any change.

Use this editor:

ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/pc/gvim70.exe

Gracias.

It's 5:20 AM and I want to fix this before sleep lol.

Do they have one that works on the EXT 3? That only lets me access the Grub loader which IS handy but won't fix the xorg.conf file problem.

Yes, sure, but the problem is that this driver sometimes just don't work, and, do you mount your "/" (root) partition, or just your /boot ? Notice that /boot is usually 100 Mb, Root about 7Gb, and /home larger. Try to mount correct one, there's a control panel option called IFS drives.

IMHO, mc and vi is much easier, you'll love vi, when you'll learn how to use it