NVidia Video drivers:
Nvidia drivers are fine. The install executables have many options. You may need to point kernel source or extarct the drivers. Once I needed to apply a patch - not from NVIDIA to make them work with the new kernels. Usually the installer precompiles and installs a module called nvidia. You have to go to runlevel 3 and reinstall the driver for every new kernel you try.
Sources:
www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-fc3.shtml
http://www.fedorafaq.org/custom_nvidia.htm
ATI Linux drivers:
It must be said: the ATI Linux driver situation used to be very bad, but now it is getting better.
I downloaded the ATI drivers and tried to install and configure them withount any luck. This was probably due to the fact that I did not know that I had to remove my previous NVIDIA drivers. I lost 24 hours trying to get it working. In the end I reintalled Fedora. I never keep something that matters on that partition. I followed these instructions (see below). I got them from Fedora Forums and FedoraFaq. The diver name is fglrx and it is a kernel module.
1) Set your default runlevel to 3.
2) Remove your previous drivers - NVIDIA also!
3) You need to add following in your yum.conf
[livna-pending]
name=Livna.org - Fedora Compatible Packages (pending)
baseurl=http://rpm.livna.org/pending/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/RPMS.unstable
[livna-testing]
name=Livna.org - Fedora Compatible Packages (pending)
baseurl=http://rpm.livna.org/pending/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/RPMS.testing
4) Run the following command :
yum install ati-fglrx kernel-module-fglrx-`(uname -r)`
It will install respective ATI drivers.
Also do :
yum install kernel-module-fglrx-`(rpm -q --queryformat="%{version}-%{release}\n" kernel | tail -n 1)`
just to make sure that you install the newest ATI driver before you start the new kernel.
To install the driver in your new kernel before you restart.
5) Add following line to your /etc/xorg.conf :
Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "no"
your device section should look like shown below.
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "fglrx"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "ATI Radeon Mobility 9600 M10"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "no"
EndSection
6) Reboot
7) To see if you have OpenGL working - type glxinfo.
Video card configuration panels:
After a thorough search, I never found a Nvidia configuration utility. I recall that once I found one - for NVIDIA and ATI, but I can't find the url any more. Now I have a ATI configuration panel in the start menu, but it is almost useless as it provides almost no tuning capabilties. Comments are welcome.
Network drivers:
forcedeth is an open source network driver for nForce3 motherboards. It's part of the kernel.
nvnet is the NVIDIA driver which come along with the audio driver provided by NVIDIA
YUM install/update tool:
Try GYUM www.fedoranews.org/tchung/gyum/2.0/ . A feature that is missing form synaptic is that GYUM has no categories. There are other graphical frontends that you can read about on the same site. Another question is how to manage the 32 bit and 64 bit rpms. Everything should be in one yum.conf or you should have two yum.confs for 32 bitand 64 bit rpms? It might me just because of me but I have to admit that I often go to rpm.pbone.net. There you can specify the needed library which is part of a rpm, also quite many distros are supported.Fedora 64 bit repositories:
- Fedora base - core,updates
- freshrpms.org
- dag.wieers.com
- rpm.livna.org - base,stable,unstable, testing
- "Fedora 64bit, Page 1/3"
- "Fedora 64bit, Page 2/3"
- "Fedora 64bit, Page 3/3"
