Installation of the video card driver in fc7

Next I will introduce how to install the livna graphics card driver in Fedora 7 (applicable to nvidia and AMD ).

First, add livna's software library (repository) to Fedora 7 to use yum for installation and upgrade. Procedure:
1. Under X-window, right-click the blank area on the desktop and select konsole to open a terminal window.
2. enter "Su-", Press enter, enter the root user password (no echo), and press enter to switch to the root user permission status, if you have logged on with the root user, skip this step. However, it is not a good habit to use the root user for daily operations.
3. Ensure Internet connection. Updating system components takes a long time and is not required. However, we recommend that you do this. Enter "yum-y Update" and press Enter. If the problem of the fedora software library causes an unsolvable software requirement relationship, such as the xine and xine-lib dependency problems that sometimes occur in Fedora Core 5, you can use the "-- exclude" parameter to exclude certain software packages, such as "yum-y update -- exclude = xine ".
4. After the update is complete, enter "rpm-ivhu http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-7.rpm”and go back to download and install the livna automatic configuration program, so that you do not need to manually modify the repo file.

Then we can start to install the driver. Do not close the terminal window before using it.
If you are using an NVIDIA graphics card, perform the following operations:
1. Enter "yum-y install kmod-NVIDIA Glx-utils" and press Enter. Note: If you are using a CPU or dual-core CPU that supports hyper-Threading Technology, use "kmod-NVIDIA-SMP" instead of "kmod-NVIDIA ", however, in most cases, yum automatically selects the appropriate version. If you are using a very old NVIDIA graphics card, you should use "yum install kmod-nvidia-96xx" or "yum install kmod-NVIDIA-Legacy ".
2. After the installation is complete, restart the computer. If the installation is successful, a NVIDIA logo will flash for one or two seconds before the graphic logon window appears.
3. Open a terminal again, enter "glxinfo | grep direct", and press Enter. If "direct rendering: yes" is displayed, congratulations! The video card driver is running properly.
NVIDIA drivers automatically detect the display modes supported by your monitor through ddci and select the highest one, which may be different from what you want. For example, my monitor is an Acer 17 inch LCD, and the maximum mode is 1280x1024 @ 75Hz, but the best mode is 1280x1024 @ 60Hz (accurate to 60.02Hz ). Due to the performance limitations of the LCD main control chip, many LCD monitors may suffer from font strokes and other problems at 75Hz, so they need to be set to the best resolution. Because NVIDIA drivers are installed, the traditional modeline writing method, dubbed "black magic", is useless.
When I used Red Hat 7.3, I couldn't find a good video card driver, after countless times of Google, I finally found the modeline suitable for my display under the Universal video buffer on a site in the Czech Republic. This exposes an early Linux drawback. At that time, Linux did not quickly accept the ddci standard like windows and could not request parameters from the monitor, resulting in a long time, linux fans must, at the risk of burning the monitor, work hard to adjust the first large parameters such as the invisibility time and the return time to correct the display deviation.
Although windows is not easy to modify, it is easy to do as follows:
1. in the terminal window, enter "Kate/etc/X11/Xorg. conf ". If you haven't installed Kate, you can also try gedit. Of course, I have no objection to using vim and Nano.
2. In the open editor window, find the "screen" section. It should be something like this:
Section "screen"
Identifier "screen0"
Device "videocard0"
Monitor "monitor0"
Defaultdepth 24
Subsection "display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
Endsubsection
Endsection
Find "1280x1024", change to "1280x1024@60.02" (with "_" instead of "@" can also, but not recommended, the reason will be mentioned at the end), pay attention to the best mode must refer to the monitor manual.
3. Save the file, exit the editor, and restart.
In this way, your monitor will work in your favorite mode. Note that the first mode in the display mode is the default mode, in X-window, you can use CTRL + ALT + [+] Or CTRL + ALT + [-] to switch the display mode. "Depth" represents the color depth, and 24 represents the 24/32-bit color.

This process takes a long time and will also install the Linux kernel, so that two Linux interfaces will appear when the system is started. Try both of them, A driver is installed for the Onda graphic interface!