Install the NVidia graphics card driver under Fedora9 (the old version of Xorgserver is used)

Some time ago, I switched from Fedora8 to Fedora9 and wrote some experiences when installing Fedora9. Installing the Nvidia graphics card driver is still a headache. In the experience, I first tried to disable ABI to use the nvidia graphics card driver, but the effect was not satisfactory and there were still some problems. I started to try to downgrade the software library by using the Xorgxserver of the old version of Fedora8 to replace the current version of Fedora9. It has been used for a few days and there is no major problem. 1)

Some time ago, I switched from Fedora 8 to Fedora 9 and wrote some experiences on installing Fedora 9. Installing the Nvidia graphics card driver is still a headache.

In the experience, I first tried to disable ABI to use the nvidia graphics card driver, but the effect was not satisfactory and there were still some problems.

I started to try to downgrade the software library by using the Xorg xserver of the old version of Fedora 8 to replace the current version of Fedora 9. Currently, it has been used for a few days, so there is no major problem.

1) First, prepare the relevant package of Fedora 8, which can be obtained from the Fedora 8 installation disk or the Fedora installation source.

Xorg-x11-server-utils-7.3-1.fc8.i386
Xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.3.0.0-44.fc8.i386
Xorg-x11-drv-keyboard-1.2.2-2.fc8.i386
Xorg-x11-drv-mouse-1.2.3-1.fc8.i386
Xorg-x11-drv-vesa-1.3.0-10.fc8.i386
Xorg-x11-drv-nv-2.1.5-2.fc8.i386
Xorg-x11-drv-evdev-1.1.2-5.fc8.i386
Xorg-x11-drv-fbdev-0.3.1-4.fc8.i386
Xorg-x11-drv-void-1.1.1-6.fc8.i386
Xorg-x11-drv-dummy-0.2.0-5.fc8.i386
Mesa-libGL-7.0.1-7.fc8.i386

2) Remove the xorg-x11-server-common, which is not available in Fedora 8.

3) run the rpm-Uvh -- oldpackage -- replacefiles -- relacepkgs command to install the preceding package. Be sure to use the -- oldpackage -- replacefiles -- relacepkgs parameter. Do not use the -- force parameter.

If the dependency prompt appears, delete unnecessary software packages gradually to solve the dependency problem until the installation is successful.

You can also reduce the dependency to Fedora 8, but we can see that most of them are driver dependencies. For a specific system, you can delete unnecessary drivers.

4) install the latest NVidia driver via Freshrpms installation source, package named nvidia-x11-drv.

5) add excludes to/etc/yum. conf, so that system updates will skip the software version check.

Exclude = xorg-x11 *

Restart and try to enter gnome. The display displays "out of frequency range ".

Delete the. gnome2/monitors. xml file in the user directory (the home directory of F8 is retained when I install F9), and then enter the Gnome Desktop.

I was surprised that the screen resolution was originally 60 hz under Fedora 8, and now there are only 50 and 51 hz options.

By hantsy
From: hantsy.cublog.cn