For the Dell Inspirion 8000/8100 with Nvidia Geforce video 1. Get the NVIDIA rpms from NVIDIA. They are included in the /contrib/nvidia directory. There are 2 readme files, README.txt and README.FERMI , please read them. You basically need 2 rpms. You need a NVIDIA_GLX????.rpm and a NVIDIA_kernel??????.rpm . 2. Copy either the XF86Config-4.1400 or XF86Config-4.1600 file as /etc/XF86Config-4 depending on if you want 1400 or 1600 resolution. 3. Make sure the contents of modules.conf.nvidia-part are in /etc/modules.conf 4. test