Fedora 10 + nvidia (FC10+Quadro) --> get Compiz to work

FC10 comes with the standatd "nv" drivers which, with latest graphic cards, are not the best. In particular they dont support 3D accel.

1) download the latest NVIDIA drivers:

(!) dont use the www.nvidia.com site to download the dirvers (it's not updated).

1.1) use the forum: go to http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=14
1.2) look for the topic "Current NVIDIA Linux graphics driver releases", and get the "Current release".

2) launch the drivers installer:

2.1) to run the installer, you need to turn off the Xserver (type "init 3" in console)
2.2) launch the installer: /root/Downloads/NVIDIA......sh

now, if your really really lucky, the installer will download the kernel from nvidia ftp for you, and will configure the xorg.conf.
In that case, your done. startx and enjoy.

otherwise (99.9%:)

if your not , youll get an ERROR because you need to rebuild the kernel:

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REBUILDING THE KERNEL for NVIDIA DRIVERS
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1) type uname -r2) yum install kernel-devel-
3) make a link to the sources: "ln -s /lib/modules/2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.i686/build/ /usr/src/linux-2.6.27.21/"
4) set the enviroment variable: "export SYSSRC=/usr/src/linux-2.6.27.21" (DONT!!! add the trailing slash here !!!)

try to run the installer. If your still getting errors, try adding also the following packages:

5) yum groupinstall "Development Tools" "Development Libraries"6) yum install kernel-devel xorg-x11-server-sdk pkgconfig