Throw in Some Nvidia Drivers

Install the Nvidia drivers. Now if you don't have an Nvidia video card, you can be sure that you can skip this step! Go here to get them if you need them. I just download the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run file, change over to the directory that I downloaded it to, and type

sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run

End of Story.

Now, sometimes I guess you have to edit your xf86config file and stuff. I didn't have to, so I wasn't too worried about it. Worked like a charm.

OK, so you probably do need to edit your xf86config file. Here's how to do that. (Note: This part is contributed by jontamask over at http://www.linuxquestions.org .)

I had to edit xf86config to really make it work. I made these changes:

from

Section "Device"
Identifier "RIVA TNT2"
Driver "nv"
#VideoRam 32768
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate

Section "Device"
Identifier "RIVA TNT2"
Driver "nvidia"
#VideoRam 32768
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate

also changed the

# This loads the GLX module
# Load "glx"
# This loads the DRI module
# Load "dri"

# This loads the GLX module
Load "glx"
# This loads the DRI module
# Load "dri"

This gives you a really big Nvidia logo when starting up X. If you maybe want to disable the logo, edit your xf86config to look like this:

Section "Device"
Identifier "RIVA TNT2"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "nologo" "1"
#VideoRam 32768
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate

ATI Drivers

Now here is a little something contributed by dawizman over at http://www.linuxquestions.org. He realized that not everyone is using the Nvidia video cards, so he was nice enough to give me these steps for getting the ATI drivers working. If you use this, make sure you pay attention. Following my directions will have you upgrading to xfree86 4.4, then to the xorg X server, and also using the 2.6.5 kernel. Looks like the ATI drivers wouldn't be to happy about that.

Note: You cannot use Xfree 4.4 or kernel 2.6 with these drivers.

Download the proper drivers for your X-Free version off of ATI.com

Then login as root

su

Then cd into the directory containing the drivers and run the following:

rpm2tgz filename.rpm
installpkg filename.tgz
cd /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod
sh make.sh
cd ..
sh make_install.sh

Make sure in your Kernel that you have the DO NOT have DRI compiled or Moduled in and that for agpgart you have it Moduled in with your correct AGP Chipset compiled in. From there type in the ATI X config command that is giving at the last command to go through there auto XF86Config maker. Then load the modules for your AGP Chipset and fglrx like so

modprobe agp-gart
modprobe intel-agp
modprobe fglrx

Then run ATI's xf-config utility

fglrxconfig

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