Fedora Core 7 release 3 and Nvidia

[DNB]

I have an PCI-E Nvidia 6600GT. It finds the card fine but when i install the drivers from invidia's site all goes well and i run the xconfig deal to set up x server i reboot and it can't start X. Goes back to default NV driver. NV control panel is here but I don't see the correct drivers anywhere.

Here is the log file.





also here is my xconf file

# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nv"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

[DNB]

wouldn't let me upload the log file says wrong format and I have no idea how to zip it.

[Finalzone]

You need to change the driver "nv" to "nvidia". Another suggestion is to install livna repository from rpm.livna.org then disable the livna repository and enable tlivna-devel to get nvidia modules.

[DNB]

well when i look through the list of drivers theres no nvidia in there just nv and also how do i install the livna repositorys and do the rest of what U said. I am new sorry but I do love linux so far and want to learn more

[Finalzone]

Here is the part to manually change with the official Nvidia driver


Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nv"
EndSection


Replace the red part "nv" by "nvidia".


To get Livna repository, download the release version (http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/6/i386/repodata/repoview/livna-release-0-6-1.html). The livna-release repository is enabled by default but you want to enable livna-devel.

Before doing the step, you must uninstall the official Nvidia driver first.

To edit the livna.repo file inside /etc/yum.repos.d/, use a text editor to set enable=0 for livna-release and enable=1 for livna-devel.


Once done, simply do the command on the terminal:
yum install kmod-nvidia.

You can also use Add/Remove Package by searching kmod-nvidia.

[DNB]

ok got ya there so far. Now how do I uninstall the drivers i got from invidia and their control panel

[DNB]

OK i installed Kmod and the X11 driver and now when i try to boot i says warniging nvidia.ko for kernel 2.6.20-3054.fc7 was not found the Nvidia driver will not be enabled untill once is found.



What do I do now? Any advice would help me so much I am about to get frustrated. I know it will be worth it in the end but man. I WANT TO GET IT TO WORK RIGHT.

[Firewing1]

OK i installed Kmod and the X11 driver and now when i try to boot i says warniging nvidia.ko for kernel 2.6.20-3054.fc7 was not found the Nvidia driver will not be enabled untill once is found.



What do I do now? Any advice would help me so much I am about to get frustrated. I know it will be worth it in the end but man. I WANT TO GET IT TO WORK RIGHT.
If you're looking for an easy setup, you shouldn't have chose a testing version of Fedora - Many things like kernel modules aren't readily available. Since kernel releases are so often in rawhide, Livna builds the main nvidia driver but not the kernel module. To do that you have to build your own module against the installed kernel :(

Although if you'd like I maintain diffingo-repo (www.diffingo.com/downloads/diffingo-repo) which has modules for Fedora Development, assuming you're running a i686-compatible machine. Just download a kernel and it's associated kmod-nvidia, and once you install them a reboot should have you up and running.
Firewing1

[DNB]

well i have fc7 because of the stupid bug i can't get the i686 to install on fc6 i have tried everything. Once it did install then monitor says frequecy out of range and I do now how to fix that.

[DNB]

Fire when I dled the .rpm's from your site I tell yum to install them and it tells me that they are not signed and stops install.

What do I do now?

[Firewing1]

Use "rpm -ihv" instead.
Firewing1

[DNB]

ok i got the new kernal install and the headers now when I try to install kmod-nvidia it says the kmod-invidia-common is needed.

[Firewing1]

You have to get that from rpm.livna.org here:
http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/development/i386/
Install them together like this:
rpm -ihv xorg*nvdia*.rpm kmod-nvidia*.rpm
Firewing1

[marko]

well i have fc7 because of the stupid bug i can't get the i686 to install on fc6 i have tried everything. Once it did install then monitor says frequecy out of range and I do now how to fix that.

DNB: you could probably avoid the 686 kernel problem by getting the FC6
re-spin instead of the original FC6 release, see:

http://fedoraunity.org/news-archives/core-6-re-spin-20070111

Mark

[Janl]

Hey Firewing, I don't suppose you have the fglrx-kmod-common for 8.35 around somewhere do you? livna-devel only has 8.34, but on your repo you have fglrx 8.35.

[Finalzone]

You have to get that from rpm.livna.org here:
http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/development/i386/
Install them together like this:
rpm -ihv xorg*nvdia*.rpm kmod-nvidia*.rpm
Firewing1

Use yum localinstall command instead.