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nVidia Drivers installation under RH8.0 - Sharing the experience

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preacher:
Ok well I didnt actually build the rpm from source when I installed the drivers in my system. I just used the base rpm for the Mandrake 9.0 distribution.

Here is what I did.

$wget http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86_40/1.0-4191/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4191.i386.rpm
$wget http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86_40/1.0-4191/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191.mdk90up.i586.rpm

$su
enter root password

#rpm -ivh NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191.mdk90up.i586.rpm
#rpm -ivh NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4191.i386.rpm

At this point I went to my XF86Config-4 file and edited it to use the new driver.

#vi /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

Scroll down to the line that says:

Section "Device"

Here you will find a line that says:

Driver "nv"

Change this to:

Driver "nvidia"

If you dont know how to use vim, to insert text, you must press the "i" key. After you are finished, type in ":wq". This will save the changes to the file, and quit vim.

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