RSS 
I started by downloading the NVidia linux driver package from the nvidia site. But I recalled that since it's a module it needs a little compiling. So I opened up the add/remove package thing Fedora supplies in the Desktop Sytem Settings menu and installed the default development tools option. Whoever setup the CDs is a retard. It started off and asked for cd1. Ok. Then cd2. Ok. Then cd3. Ok guys, you could have put this together a little more since this is the default option you guys made. What ever. Then cd2, then cd1, cd2, cd1, cd2, cd1, cd2, cd1, cd2, cd1... etc. Holy fuck that was retarded. Why not grab everything you need off the CD at once, and who's bright idea was it to place things on the cds like that? What a monumental pain in the ass. But it got done.
So next, I need the kernel source. This is where Gentoo really shines, but oh well. It wasn't even in the add/remove package app so I had to go looking on the net and install cds. The kernel packages are on cd1, as well as the devel packages for the xen and SMP kernels, but the regular one processor kernel-devel packages some how ended up on the 4th cd. I put that in and tried to rpm install it but it needed hardlink which was not on that cd. I started getting pissed. This was retarded.
Then after some more googleing I discovered yum.
# yum install kernel-devel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4
That was all it took. It took a bit to initialize the archives but then off it went and downloaded what I needed and installed it. So that was nice and a lot easier.
So, now I had everything I knew I needed, lets see if I forgot anything. I sued to root and ran the installer. First off it demanded I leave X and turn it off. So I tried. How? I couldn't just log out. I needed to turn X off. I tried to kill everything I could from the console with the help of ps, bot X and gdm. I also of course tried the gdm entries in /etc/init.d but unlike gentoo, that did dick all. ps aux reported that no X or gdm was running but the NVidia installer was unconvinced.
That failing, I found this tutorial on Linux Questions. The answer turned out to be to edit /etc/inittab and change the run level to one without X and reboot!
I then ran the driver install and for the first time it worked, but cryptically notified me that my tnt2 was supported by legacy drivers but that it would be ignored? And then it proceeded to install. But stoped because there was no kernel interface. So back to my kernel source /lib/modules/`uname -r`\build and a make bzImage and modules. It gave me lots of warnings and then failed.
And I gave up. It should not be this retarded and hard to install the nvidia drivers which are given away for free by nvidia. Do distro's really think their users don't want to use the expensive video cards they bought. What is going to happen when gtk 2.8 with cairo gets here. It has GL support and will make things fast but if distros don't even support GL. ..
What the fuck. This is lame and has pissed me off. Ubuntu shipping with broken nvidia drivers. Fedora making it nigh impossible to install them.
This is fucking lame for linux. How are windows users supposed to move over if their games which developers took time to port to linux and which hardware companies have written decent drivers for still don't work because distro's do not support them in any way shape or form.
Lot's of people slag gentoo for its "hard" install, but it's not that bad, had an amazing manual and properly supports all these drivers, in a really easy fashion. Out of Fedora 4, Ubuntu, and Gentoo, Gentoo is the only distro I've gotten GL working on with nvidia cards either at all or in a non buggy manner. Fuck you Redhat and Ubuntu.
