noob with "input not supported" problem

[marsjoseph]

I have just installed fedora 9 on my computer, however when it boots up to any sort of a graphical page my monitor goes blank with an "input not supported" message. I have a acer x171 monitor and a Nvidia Gforce 8800GTS 512 graphics card.

Yes, I have seen countless posts of people with my problem and I understand that I must either edit my monitors refresh rate, or change my graphics drivers. My problem is that I dont know enough about how to use linux to do this. If someone could give me a step by step explanation for solving this problem I would be very greatful.

[leadgolem]

Well, first you will need to do this from runlevel 3. To get to runlevel 3 you need to specify this to your kernel. So before the initial boot times out and starts up press any key to stop the timeout. Then highlight your kernel line and hit "e" to edit the actual kernel line. Add a space and a number 3 after the line so it looks something like this.kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.25.4-30.fc9.x86_64 ro root=LABEL=/ quiet 3Once the system boots you will need to login as root and run the following. This assumes you don't have the livna repository setup already.rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-9.rpm
yum install kmod-nvidiaAgree to the install, then reboot the system. Easiest way to reboot is to do this.init 6

[marsjoseph]

I entered runlevel 3 as you said and did the root login and entered the website command you have above after which it appeared to have downloaded something. Next it entered "yum install kmod-nvidia". After this I got an error that reads

could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrors.fedoraprodject.org/mirrorlist?repo=f
edora-9&arch=i386 error was
[Errno4]IO Error:<urlopen error (-3,'tempeary failure in name resolution')>
error:cannot retrieve repository metadata (respond.xml) for repository:fedora.
Please verify its path and try again.

Ive done this several times so I am certain I have entered the commands you have posted accurately