nvidia install issues

[zynthetic]

After looking at some of the posts here on the forum, I'm having trouble locating a successful way to install the new nvidia drivers.

NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7174-pkg1

The first error I received was that the driver couldn't be installed with x windows running, so I edited the following:

/etc/X11/org.conf
/etc/rc.local
/boot/grub/grub.conf

according to this (http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showth...=nvidia+driver) article, there is a command that needs to be done in order for this to work:

export CC=gcc

In order to install the development tools available for this, I need disc 3 to install the necessary packettes. For some reason, or another, disc 3 isn't working for this need. I've tried creating two different disks based on the same iso from two different websites mirrored at fedora.redhat.com, and I'm not having luck with either.

I've even tried mounting the iso independently to view the files, which I've done sucessfully, but I can't seem to get the installer to recognize the mount as the drive to use.

Can anyone help me?

[foolish]

See www.fedorafaq.org/#nvidia

[Firewing1]

Ummm... You don't need to do any of that. Just edit /etc/inittab. You will see a section as follows:

# Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are:
# 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
# 1 - Single user mode
# 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking)
# 3 - Full multiuser mode
# 4 - unused
# 5 - X11
# 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#
id:5:initdefault:
Just change the 5 of the text in bold to a 3. This changes to init runlevel 3, aka no startup graphics. In abackup, you can startx to start X manually. Once you install the driver, just change it back to 5 and voila.
Good Luck,
Firewing1

[Bigfatso]

well when I started out I had a hell of a time getting the drivers to stick. here's a thread that has a post explaining what I did.

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/...ad.php?t=46880

It seems that in my last post what made the difference is the command I issued with the -nodeps switch.
There are also some posts from a few Fedora Guru type people in there.

[zynthetic]

I finally got the iso to work, and installed the necessary development tools to rid the first error. Unfortunately there is a new problem.

The short cut on the init- helped big time too, however here is the log error:

ERROR: You do not appear to have libc header files installed on your system.
Please install your distribution's libc development package.
ERROR: Installation has failed. Please see the file
'/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' for details. You may find suggestions
on fixing installation problems in the README available on the Linux
driver download page at www.nvidia.com.

libc-2.3.3.so is in my lib folder, and am pretty confused by this
any ideas?

[zynthetic]

If anyone strolls across this, the problem has been resolved, the driver installed, and OpenGL tested. Thanks everyone for your help.

To solve the libc error, I merely needed to update the launch2update features. Not entirely sure which RPM's were responsible for fixing the problem, but after updating all of them it appeared to work. Probably just didn't have a recent enough copy of this library.

Thanks again