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I am somewhat familiar with Linux, but haven't used it in a few years. I built a new pc and put a GeForce 7600 in it. After I installed Fedora ...
  1. 03-20-2009 #1
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    Installing nvidia drivers on Fedora 10, did I do it right?

    I am somewhat familiar with Linux, but haven't used it in a few years. I built a new pc and put a GeForce 7600 in it. After I installed Fedora (x64), I followed the directions on this website:

    Fedora Nvidia Driver Install Guide

    Everything seemed to go smoothly during the installation. After a reboot, I checked my boot.log and it showed:
    Checking for module nvidia.ko: ^[[60G[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0;39m]^M
    Enabling the nvidia driver: Driver already enabled.
    Does this mean I did everything correctly and everything is working? Is there anything else I need to do? Any feedback would be great!
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    Hello and Welcome!
    It would appear that you have indeed installed the driver. You can open a teminal/konsole window and type this command.
    Code:
    glxgears
    You'll get a new window open with some spinning gears, and some output like this, if it's working right.
    Code:
    10576 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2115.134 FPS
9752 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1950.326 FPS
10136 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2027.119 FPS
10095 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2018.990 FPS
10446 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2089.175 FPS
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    Yes, the glxgears command works. This is probably a stupid question, but when I run the command, it gives me lots of output like yours and when I close the window with the spinning gears, it says:
    XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0.0"
    after 89 requests (89 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
    Am I supposed to let the program run until it finishes? I let it run for a few minutes before I closed the window. Thanks for the help!
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    Quote Originally Posted by marley View Post
    Yes, the glxgears command works. This is probably a stupid question, but when I run the command, it gives me lots of output like yours and when I close the window with the spinning gears, it says:

    Am I supposed to let the program run until it finishes? I let it run for a few minutes before I closed the window. Thanks for the help!
    That's normal, I get the same thing. In fact it won't ever stop, it just keeps going and going...........
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