I have fedora 8 kernel 2.6.25.11-60.fc8

I have an nvidia gtx 280 card. I installed the kmod-nvidia plugin for yumex but the kmod-nvidia 2.6.25.11-60.fc8 i686 didn't work.

I have an E8400 processor.

So I downloaded the 177.13 driver from www.nvidia.com

I went into init 3 mode and ran

sh Nvidia-name-of-the-package

it had an error asking for the source kernel so I yum installed gcc make kernel-devel

I reran the patch and it worked fine. Then I started up the x server but I was stuck at 640x480. I checkout out my xorg.conf and I added some modes for different resolutions. There wasn't a mode part before. Anyhow, that made no difference at all. What should I do next?

My xorg.conf looked like normal except that it was missing the modes part. What is Depth for? Mine was at 24. Anyhow, what should I do next. I modprobe nvidia already too.

Could you post your xorg.conf file, please ?

The name of the nvidia package was
NVIDIA-Linux-x86-177.13-pkg1.run

Here's my xorg.conf

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder63) Tue Jun 10 17:14:15 PDT 2008

# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us+inet"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"

HorizSync 30.0 - 110.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 150.0
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nvidia"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Some lines of your conf file are different from mine.

For example, my "Device" section:
Section "Device"
#
Identifier "device2"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA"
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce 6800 (generic)"
BusID "PCI:3:0:0"
Screen 0
EndSection

And my "Monitor" section:
Section "Screen"
#
Identifier "screen2"
Device "device2"
Monitor "monitor2"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768@75" "1024x768@70" "1024x768@60" "800x600@60" "1152x864@75" "800x600@75" "1280x1024@75" "800x600@72" "1280x960@60" "800x600@56" "1280x1024@60" "640x480@75" "1280x960@75" "640x480@72"
EndSubSection
EndSection

You could try inserting "BusID" and "Screen" line in the "Device" section. This works for me. Wish you luck. Be sure to insert YOUR BusID, not mine .

Where would I find the BUSID for the video card?

#lspci -vv
or
#lspci -b

Awesome, thank you