Quick nvidia set-up F11 (noob friendly)

serverman · #1 20th June 2009, 11:18 AM

Here Is a quick Set-up for x86_64 based systems using yum, rpmfusion and if your using 32 bit then you will just have to mod the code slightly. Oh and this Is only for GeForce 6 to 200 series cards.

Ok First you need to download your drivers. To do this we will open the terminal and enter root mode.
Applications> System tools > Terminal (for gnome... I do not use KDE so I do not know menu on it)
Now we have the terminal opened, we need to enter root mode.
(step one) enter in your terminal :

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then enter your root password.

Ok now we have the terminal opened and it is in root mode. We need to set-up rpmfusion for Yum. This is a simple task,(step two) just enter this code into your terminal:

Code:

rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm

simple as that.

Ok now we are to the set downloading and installing the drivers. Yum is going to do all the work for you. all you need to do is(step three) enter in terminal:

Code:

 yum install kmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.x86_64

After that is installed reboot (you can use the reboot command or just hit reboot)

Ok now setting your screen settings, it should look its best already but if not you can adjust it.
Reopen Terminal and go back in root mode.
so:

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then we are going to open the GUI for editing your Xorg.cong file
in terminal in root mode enter

Code:

nvidia-settings

and it will open the GUI
from there you can set-up dual screen or what ever else you might need to change,
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Sum up.

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su

then

Code:

rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm[/

then

Code:

 yum install kmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.x86_64

then reboot
then

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then

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nvidia-settings

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Hope you found this helpful. I tried to make it as noob friendly as i could. If you run into errors I will Try to help. In a few days i might write an Python script to do this all for you but I am a little busy at the moment. If this doesnt help you than you might want to try leigh123linux's article on this topic, F11, F10 & F9 Nvidia driver guides
-Serverman