Nvidia drivers in Fedora 8
 

[venmacale@localhost ~]$ sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-169.09-pkg1.run
Verifying archive integrity... OK
Uncompressing NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86 169.09............................................ .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. ........................................
nvidia-installer: Error opening log file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' for writing (Permission denied); disabling logging.

how do i run the installer in root ? wich command?

Re: Nvidia drivers in Fedora 8
 

I don't really know what you're doing there, but I installed the drivers recently and this should come in handy:

http://www.fedorafaq.org/#nvidia