If when you try to install the NVIDIA drivers they fail is probably because you don't have the kernel headers available.

As you can read in the FC3 Release Notes the kernel-source package doesn't exist anymore. The same functionality can be achieved by using the correspondent source rpm. Download the kernel-2.6.9-1.667 source rpm and install it:

rpm -i kernel-2.6.9-1.667.src.rpm

Now run:

rpmbuild -bp --target=i686 /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/kernel.spec
ln -s /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.9/linux-2.6.9 /usr/src/linux-2.6.9-1.667
cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.9-1.667
cp -f configs/kernel-2.6.9-i686.config .config
make oldcondig

Now run in a console this command to go into text mode:

init 3

Finally you should press ALT+1 if nothing appears, this will bring you to a text mode login screen. Login as root and run the NVIDIA Installer as usual and now everything¹ should work fine.

¹everything:

you have to remove rhbg from the grub.conf. Then whenever you start the computer gdm will fail so you have to login as root, modprobe nvidia and startx (everytime).

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