Sunday, June 8, 2008

Technology : Fedora 9 kmod-nvidia released on Livna repository

Greeting to all Fedora lovers. To all who's having trouble installing nvidia driver on your Fedora 9 distro. Here's a good new for you, kmod-nvidia is now available on livna repository. Here's what you'll need to do.

* Install first livna Fedora 9 repository as root user
root@localhost# rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-9.rpm

* Then make sure you have yum on you installation
root@localhost# yum install kmod-nvidia

Note: This process will require upgrading your kernel, if you have already installed some application which requires you're current kernel I suggest you must review what packages are affected before do such upgrade.

This will needed to be installed while yum checks on dependency:(It will depend on how did you install your Fedora )
* xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-173.14.05-1.lvn9.i386
* akmod-nvidia-173.08-1.lvn9.i686
* kmod-nvidia-2.6.25.4-30.fc9.i686-173.14.05-3.lvn9.i686
* xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173.14.05-1.lvn9.i386
* kmod-nvidia-173.14.05-3.lvn9.i686


After install kmod-nvidia through yum, I rebooted my laptop and all went well and I can start desktop effects and enable workspace on a cube. Also you can notice a great improvement on your graphics. Also base on my experience with Fedora 8, when i installed kmod-nvidia I experience poor quality on graphics due to whenever I use desktop effects i get wierd outputs when running GLX gears. Now I can get this result 18044 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3608.795 FPS. Now thats 3-D at its best. I can now try playing Nexuiz.Enjoy!