Install the Nvidia graphics card driver for Fedora9

Since Fedora9 uses the latest Xorg, nvidia initially said that it will not support this version until July, and then said it has supported X in the latest version 173.14.05. after installing the driver for Org7/X in the freshrpms.net source, I think it is best to return the xorg version to the Fedora8 version. The method is as follows: delete version 1.5 xorg and mesalibraries. # yum-yremove

Since Fedora 9 uses the latest Xorg, nvidia initially said that it will not support this version until July, and then said in the latest version 173.14.05 that X is supported. after installing the driver for Org 7/X in freshrpms.net, I think it is best to return the xorg version to the Fedora8 version. The method is as follows:

Delete version 1.5 xorg and mesa libraries.
# Yum-y remove xorg-x11-server-Xorg xorg-x11-server-common
# Rpm-e-nodeps-allmatches mesa-libGL mesa-libGLU mesa-libGL-devel mesa-libGLU-devel glx-utils
Use fedora 8 Source
# Cd/etc/yum. repos. d
# Wget
Http://www.linux-ati-drivers.homecall.co.uk/fedora8.repo
# Perl-I-pe "s/(\ [. * \])/\ 1 \ nexclude = xorg * linuxwacom * rhpxl * mesa */" fedora. repo
# Perl-I-pe "s/(\ [. * \])/\ 1 \ nexclude = xorg * linuxwacom * rhpxl * mesa */" fedora-updates.repo
Install Development Tools/Libraries
# Yum-y groupinstall "Development Tools" "Development Libraries"
# Yum-y install kernel-devel
Install xorg1.3
# Yum-y groupinstall "X Window System"
# Yum-y install mesa-libGL mesa-libGLU mesa-libGL-devel mesa-libGLU-devel synaptics
Now the downgrade is complete, reboot, install the latest nvidia driver 173.08,
# Sh nvidia .... Pkg1.run.
# Reboot
We should be able to see the familiar nvidia logo.
173.08 is a BETA version. If you want to install 169.12 (this is a stable driver), you need to download the patch file.
# Sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-169.12-pkg1.run \-apply-patch 169.12-2286310.diff.txt
# Sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-169.12-pkg1-custom.run
# Reboot
Edit/etc/yum. repos. d/fedora. repo and/etc/yum. repos. d/fedora-updates.repo and delete the exclude = xorg * linuxwacom * rhpxl * mesa * line.
Delete fedora8.rpeo
# Rm/etc/yum. rpeos. d/fedora8.rpeo