1.0-9639 mx 4000 FC6 install issues

[Freezy1]

Heres what I got cooking. I have a BFG Geforce MX 4000 running on an asus p5pe-vm and a d805. I decided it was time to see what Fedora Core6 could do beside Folding for Stanford..

Somebody said Nexiuz was a pretty cool looking game that was free for Linux. I installed that and the game would spaz once per second. Then somebody mentioned I need the proprietary drivers from nvidea. Thats what brought me here.

Its not easy finding the correct driver package for a mx 4000 since it isn't listed on the find-a-driver page. No MXs for that matter.

I used the correct command line supplied on the download page and the result was an error saying I appeared to be running an x-server blah blah blaah install aborted.

Then I tried to get some info from the installers log and it said permission is denied. I'm in the root account, permission?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Any

[whig]

Shutdown the gui, check if the command to do it is "init 3".

[Freezy1]

wow you just jackpotted your post count...


I will give the command a try

thanks

[Freezy1]

I moved the driver into the home directory without any folders. Then I went into non-gui-land after typing init 3. Then I typed in the sh-NVIDIA...command, the install started and says I am missing a development tool CC or GCC and I need to make sure I have that in my path.

I haven't a clue what that means.

[whig]

The installer wants to "link" together its program, to do that requires gcc - the GNU Compiler Collection. Install gcc through your FC6 package manager.