Nvidia 7300GT and Fedora core 8 x86_64

[udisco]

Hi there,
I've installed dual boot XP64Bit and FC8 64Bit on a dell optiplex 755.
both os runs fine when i use the onboard card.
once i inserted the Nvidia GeForce 7300GT Card to the system, the problems started.
on XP everything works fine but on FC the X won't start.
I tried installing the drivers from the nvidia website.
both versions returns the same error:
(WW) ******INVALID MEM ALLOCATION ***** b: 0x128000000 e: 0x128ffffff correcting
(EE) cannot find a replacement memory range
(WW) ******INVALID MEM ALLOCATION ***** b: 0x129000000 e: 0x129ffffff correcting
(EE) cannot find a replacement memory range
(EE) NVIDIA(0)L Failed to initialize the nvidia graphics device!
(EE) screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
FATAL SERVER ERROR:
no screens found.

the only difference between the 2 versions is that the newest version (169.07) also returns:
the NVIDIA GPU at PCI:1:0:0 is not supported by the 169.07 Nvidia Driver.

after reading a bit in this forum and others i tried to remove the drivers from nvidia and install them from the livna repo.
but no matter what driver i try to install it keeps going back to version 169.07

can someone help?

BTW, anyone knows what happenned to nvnews.net website ? i can't seem to reach it.
thanks
udisco

[Anniedog]

Try su -
password
in terminal then
lsmod
this should give you the kernel modules installed
find the module you do not want for nvidia and do
rmmod I think or you can use modprobe -r to remove the module.
I use from livna the 96xx one foe my card so try that.

[udisco]

thanks for posting your comment, Anniedog.
I'm not that good with linux, so I have no idea which modules i don't want and which ones i do need.
if you can be more specific that would be great.
here's the output of lsmod:
Module Size Used by
rfcomm 50537 0
l2cap 36289 9 rfcomm
bluetooth 64453 4 rfcomm,l2cap
autofs4 28361 2
sunrpc 168009 1
nf_conntrack_ipv4 17353 2
ipt_REJECT 12353 2
iptable_filter 11073 1
ip_tables 26281 1 iptable_filter
nf_conntrack_ipv6 25713 2
xt_state 10689 4
nf_conntrack 65345 3 nf_conntrack_ipv4,nf_conntrack_ipv6,xt_state
nfnetlink 13321 3 nf_conntrack_ipv4,nf_conntrack_ipv6,nf_conntrack
xt_tcpudp 11713 8
ip6t_ipv6header 10817 2
ip6t_REJECT 12993 2
ip6table_filter 10945 1
ip6_tables 21257 2 ip6t_ipv6header,ip6table_filter
x_tables 23113 7 ipt_REJECT,ip_tables,xt_state,xt_tcpudp,ip6t_ipv6h eader,ip6t_REJECT,ip6_tables
loop 23493 0
dm_multipath 24400 0
ipv6 307273 28 nf_conntrack_ipv6,ip6t_REJECT
snd_hda_intel 361577 0
snd_seq_dummy 11461 0
snd_seq_oss 37313 0
snd_seq_midi_event 15041 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 56673 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 15061 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss 45889 0
snd_mixer_oss 22721 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 80201 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 27721 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 16465 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
snd_hwdep 16073 1 snd_hda_intel
nvidia 8895940 0
snd 60137 9 snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,s nd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwd ep
serio_raw 14277 0
pcspkr 11329 0
joydev 17601 0
soundcore 15073 1 snd
button 15969 0
i2c_i801 16861 0
i2c_core 28865 2 nvidia,i2c_i801
e1000e 100581 0
parport_pc 35177 0
parport 42317 1 parport_pc
dcdbas 16113 0
sr_mod 23397 0
cdrom 40553 1 sr_mod
sg 40297 0
dm_snapshot 22921 0
dm_zero 10305 0
dm_mirror 27073 0
dm_mod 57649 9 dm_multipath,dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror
ata_piix 24133 2
ata_generic 14405 0
libata 114673 2 ata_piix,ata_generic
sd_mod 33345 3
scsi_mod 145657 4 sr_mod,sg,libata,sd_mod
ext3 126929 2
jbd 64817 1 ext3
mbcache 15809 1 ext3
uhci_hcd 30561 0
ohci_hcd 27845 0
ehci_hcd 39117 0