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Solving Fedora 7 (FC7) Nvidia Display Problem

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The "nv" driver doesn't work on my GeForce 6600LM. Installing Nvidia's driver however gives the following errors when starting X:

(II) LoadModule: "glx"
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module glx
(II) UnloadModule: "glx"
(EE) Failed to load module "glx" (module does not exist, 0)
(II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module nvidia
(II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
(EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0)

The reason being Nvidia's driver by default installs modules to /usr/X11R6/lib64/modules, however, FC7 now installs Xorg related modules to /usr/lib64/xorg/modules

Solution: Specify the module path during installation.

./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-9755-pkg2.run --x-module-path=/usr/lib64/xorg/modules

Let the installation updates xorg.conf automatically.

Done. Enjoy!