NVIDIA drivers, no sound, and where's Windows?!?

[hijacktheleft]

I know I should probably create three separate posts for this, but etiquette differs from community to community and I'd rather get told to separate them then get flamed for flooding the board...

Anyway, I just installed Fedora 10. It runs great. I've installed quite a few applications. I do have a few problems though.

1.) I've downloaded the latest NVIDIA drivers, but when I try to install them, it says it can't install because X is running. NVIDIA gives instructions for getting the drivers to work with X, but all I'm getting is "No such file or directory" every time I try to do anything it says to do. I don't even know what X is. How do I get these things installed? Are NVIDIA's instructions accurate? ( Appendix*I.*Tips for New Linux Users )

EDIT: A lot of the games I downloaded, including Supertuxkart, run incredibly slow. Supertuxkart runs at maybe 2 or 3 frames per second. It seems like anything in 3D runs super slow. I don't have a terrible old machine. It's an AMD dual core 4200 with 1.5GB of RAM so I'm assuming it has to do with the video drivers? Maybe?

2.) I don't have any sound. At all. It seems to have a driver installed. It looks like three, actually. There's an Alsa mixer, an OSS mixer, and a PulseAudio mixer. None of them result in sound coming through my speakers. When I open the PulseAudio volume control, the bar that shows the volume levels goes up and down, like it detects a song playing, but I don't actually hear anything. I have a SoundBlaster Audigy 2. Is there a bug, or is it a conflict with all those different mixers, or am I just doing something wrong?

3.) After installing Fedora, I am able to get to my Windows C:\ and see all my files. After I created the free space for Fedora but before I installed it, I was able to reboot and get into Windows. Now I can't. Fedora's boot screen gives me the option to boot into either Fedora or Other, with Other being my system restore partition. Fedora and Windows are on different partitions on the same hard drive, so when I use my BIOS boot options, it still just goes right to Fedora. Now, like I said, I can see all the files on my Windows partition, so I know I didn't format over it, but it's like something rendered the Windows partition non-bootable.

I'm by no means a computer noob, but I'm very much, probably obviously so, a Linux noob, so any help that's Linux specific, keep that in mind. Thank you so much in advance.

[hijacktheleft]

Yes, I'm double posting, but I wanted to mention, I got my NVIDIA drivers installed, but I'm still having problems with 3D graphics. They all still run super slow.

[techieMoe]

Yes, I'm double posting, but I wanted to mention, I got my NVIDIA drivers installed, but I'm still having problems with 3D graphics. They all still run super slow.

Are you *sure* you got your drivers installed properly? Try running glxgears from a terminal window and take note of the FPS you get. If it's anything below about 1000, your drivers aren't installed correctly.

[hijacktheleft]

No, I'm definitely not sure they're installed correctly. Like I said, I followed NVIDIA's instructions, and was unsuccessful. After doing research, I came across a how-to, that told how to do it all through the command line, which I did and it appeared to install, but my 150fps on the glxgears seems to suggest otherwise.
On a side note, if I make the glxgears screen smaller, I can get over 2000fps, but I guess that's cheating.

[hijacktheleft]

Also, it might be worth mentioning that I have a 256MB 8600GT with my AMD 4200x2 and 1.5GB of RAM.

[Lazydog]

I use nVidia drivers here that I download from the nVidia site and this is how they are installed.

To install the nVidia drivers off the sit you need to do/have a few things.

1. You need to have the kernel development package installed.
2. You need to stop X
3. You need to be root

Use the following to install the kernel development package.

yum -y install kernel-devel

Now stop X. If you boot into init 3 then simply log out of X If you boot using init 5 then press CRTL+ATL+F2 and then type init 3.
If you are not sure how you start your system look in /etc/inittab and look for id:#:initdefault:. This will tell you how you are booting.

Now goto the directory you downloaded the nVidia site driver to and ensure it is executable.
As roo execute the file and follow the prompts. Normally just hitting enter will be enough.

Now return to tyour X session.
If you used init 3 then type init 5 and then CRTL+ALT+F7
If you just logged out of X then simply start it again.

One thing to remember is you need to run this drive every time you upgrade the kernel. also nVidia updates their drivers so when you upgrade the driver you'll need to do this also.