I recently installed fedora 6 on my computer without an internet connection. things seem to work fine, except this.
I can't figure out how to install an rpm without an internet connection. when i double click it, it comes up with some "retrieving system information error" that happens because i have no internet connection. when i try
yum install [file]
it comes up with some strange error.
so anyway, back to the story. i picked up the .run file from the NVidia website to install drivers because I have no idea how to use an RPM. i install. it works. and i try glxgears. it runs for a few seconds. then everything freezes up, there is no way out of the session (ctrl alt F1/2/3/4 don't work), and nothing happens. if i restart, the booting process gets to the nVidia splash screen and then freezes.
my hardware:
Fedora Core 6
Intel Celeron 2.89 ghz EM64T
512mb Ram
Asus P5V800-MX Mobo
80gb SATA Harddrive
NVidia NV17 Geforce 4400 MX
EDIT: the text in bold has been solved, and i have installed the driver from the rpm anyway. the same glx problem occurs, no one has looked at this post, i wonder why?
