nvidia gforce 6200 oc frustration

[terry_g]

I recently installed a Nvidia gforce 6200 oc video card it replaced a gforce 4 I wanted to have a second output for dualhead displays. but I am having some problems with the driver and I have not even got to the dual head part yet.
The computer dual boots windows expee and fedora core 4.
I installed another installation of Fedora 4 with the newest kernel and the kernel source. I called it FC4test in the grub menu a triple boot installation.that way if I crash my test install it won't matter.
After many attempts and reading several posts from this forum finally downloading the newest version of the driver from Nvidia's website, the first one was downloaded two days prior and I could not make it work,

I was able to install the driver this is how I did it.

Boot up the computer log in as root update the inittab file to boot in runlevel 3 (The telinit command freezes the computer with a black screen).
reboot
Type setenforce =0
run the installer sh NVIDIA -tab -enter
the installer runs builds the module and installs it.
type setenforce =1
update inittab to boot in runlevel 5
reboot

I open the xorg.conf and add under modules
"load glx"
remove "load dri"
under device change driver from "nv" to n"vidia"
reboot
X does not start and I get a screen offering to show log files and then a screen that will try to restart the display I chose no and got to a black screen with a blinking cursor in the top left corner. All I could do was ctrl-alt-del and reboot. I had to reboot into the first install of fedora 4 to edit the xorg.conf from the second or test install.

I commented out "load glx" and rebooted again into the test install.

This time X did not start early in the boot process as it used to and when I thought it was not going to a full screen NVIDIA logo appeared and the there was the log in screen at 600x800.
The problems I'm having are.

After I set the resolution to 1024x768 the screen is shifted to the left about 1/4" not a big deal I geuss.
I can adjust it with the monitor adjustment menu.

What is GLX??? Do I need it???
my xorg.setup.log has the line "(ee) Failed to initialize GLX extension (NVIDIA X driver not found)"

At the command typed in a shell as root "nvidia-settings" returns " segmentation fault" and the program does'nt open.

Thanks in advance Terry

[imdeemvp]

Are you trying to install using a vanilla kernel? if the is the case the kernel-source should also be the same. Now if you use the fedora kernels does the installation of nvidia work and have you tried doing that?

[terry_g]

I am running kernel-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 and the matching kernel-devel#2.6.12-1.1398_FC4
the installer said the driver installed and appears to have but it doesn't seem to be working correctly.

[terry_g]

I shoulkd have added. as bootup procedes from booting the kernel then starting udev then it tries to load the video driver (I think) the screen flashes three times and then the list of starting items scrolls instead of the old screen with the bar graph. Then just before the login screen the screen flashes several times again then the nvidia logo flashes and the driver loads. I don't think this is right.

[imdeemvp]

Can you post your xorg.conf? and match it with this one attached in this thread. Try adding the GLX to xorg again.

[terry_g]

This my xorg.conf



# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"

# RgbPath is the location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally
# no need to change the default.
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
FontPath "unix/:7100"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "fbdevhw"
# Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
# Option "Xleds" "1 2 3"
# To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.
# Option "XkbDisable"
# To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
# lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S.
# keyboard, you will probably want to use:
# Option "XkbModel" "pc102"
# If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
# Option "XkbModel" "microsoft"
#
# Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
# For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# or:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
#
# If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
# control keys, use:
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps"
# Or if you just want both to be control, use:
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"
#
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Dell P992"
DisplaySize 360 270
HorizSync 30.0 - 107.0
VertRefresh 48.0 - 170.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce 6200"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
Modes "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Group 0
Mode 0666
EndSection

[imdeemvp]

Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "fbdevhw"
# Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
EndSection

When they say comment out it means you have to delete the line. What you did in this case was hide glx so REMOVE the # and save it.

[terry_g]

I tried to reinstall again This time I disabled SELinux from the desktop. System Settings-Security Level. then edited inittab to runlevel3 now when I issue the setenforce command I get "SELinux is disabled" I uninstalled the driver and reinstalled it and it works!!! Strangly the telinit 3 command did not work either. could this be a security level settin set wrong??

[Finalzone]

I think you don't need to disable SELinux. When installing the official Nvidia driver, make sure to check "relabel on boot" from Security Level.

[imdeemvp]

Strangly the telinit 3 command did not work either

How are you issuing the command?

/sbin/telinit 3

is the correct command....

[terry_g]

Thanks Imdeemvp I guess teleinit 3 worked with fedora 3 if I remember right. I tried and /sbin/telinit 3 worked. I'm going to take a break from this machine before I try to set up dual monitors
Terry

[imdeemvp]

It works when you are log in as root!