1.0-8756 is very old (over a year), and is no longer supported. You should be using 1.0-9746, and if you need further assistance see here: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=46678 On 3/6/07, Walter Garcia-Fontes <walter.garcia@xxxxxxx> wrote:
I have a Fedore Core 5 installation in a Dell Precision 690. My graphic card is a 256Mb nVidia Quadro FX3500 Graphics Card The computer was making some noice from fans and according to some private help that I received, it turned out that the fan making the noise is the graphics card I was told that updating to the newest driver the fan would turn off after booting. I went to Dell's web page, and downloaded dell-nvidia-8756-5dkms.i386.rpm which supposedly provided a driver for this computer. Trying to install it, it told me that I didn't have the kernel sources. So I dowloaded them, but trying to install it again, it told me that it was already installed. So I tried to reboot, and : no xwindows! It would tell me that it couldn't start it because of a graphics driver problem. (here I installed kernel-devel and all the other suggested packages to have the kernel sources and headers accorrding to the version of the kernel I was runnin). I tried to download the driver directly from the NVIDIA web page and compile it myself, but it would always abort, complaining that it couldn't find the kernel headers or sources, though I swear they were in the right places (and I entered the path manually using an option that they provide in the script and tried a zillion of other things and it didn't work). I tried a couple of other things, like downloading the driver from the livna repository, and one of these things worked, I guess that driver worked, as I could finally start the x server (and gnome), but I don't know exactly what solved it since I tried a couple of different things and some of them remotedly. But the principal suspect is the livna download. Anyway, now I don't get the initial fedora splash screen (I took the rgb parameter out of the line in the grub.conf), no big deal, and I also get an error at boot up telling me something like: dkms - autoinstalling nvidia driver ... bad install - build failed! or something like this, but the x system starts ok, and the fan turns off! Now, another problem. Last night the kernel got updated by yum and I have to revert to the previous version as the nvidia module will not start with the new kernel. Is there any way that I can fix this once and for all? It's really anoying to arrive one morning to your office with a lot of things to do and find out that you can't start your desktop and spend all morning reinstalling the driver from a text console...
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