fedora 16, nvidia gt 555m

[uptikool]

hi I was followingthis guide "F16,F15 & F14 Nvidia driver guides http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=204752"and now i cant get gnome 3 to load it constantly enters fallback mode and this is my output for

rpm -qa *\nvidia\* *\kernel\*|sort;uname -r;lsmod |grep -e nvidia -e nouveau;cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf

abrt-addon-kerneloops-2.0.7-3.fc16.x86_64
akmod-nvidia-295.59-1.fc16.x86_64
kernel-3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64
kernel-3.3.8-1.fc16.x86_64
kernel-3.4.2-1.fc16.x86_64
kernel-devel-3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64
kernel-devel-3.3.8-1.fc16.x86_64
kernel-devel-3.4.2-1.fc16.x86_64
kernel-headers-3.4.2-1.fc16.x86_64
kernel-tools-3.4.2-1.fc16.x86_64
kmod-nvidia-295.59-1.fc16.1.x86_64
kmod-nvidia-3.3.8-1.fc16.x86_64-295.59-1.fc16.x86_64
kmod-nvidia-3.4.2-1.fc16.x86_64-295.59-1.fc16.1.x86_64
libreport-plugin-kerneloops-2.0.10-3.fc16.x86_64
nvidia-settings-1.0-17.fc16.x86_64
nvidia-xconfig-1.0-15.fc16.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-295.59-1.fc16.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-295.59-1.fc16.x86_64
3.4.2-1.fc16.x86_64
nvidia 12353316 0
i2c_c.ore 33895 7 nvidia,videodev,i2c_i801,i915,drm_kms_helper,drm,i 2c_algo_bit
cat: /etc/X11/xorg.conf: No such file or directory

I am also reciving this error when the computer is booting up

Failed to read event value too large
failed to start LSB: builds and install new kmod from akmod pakages
see systemctl status akmonds.service for details

I am fairly new to linux and would appreciate the help

[mikee]

type:

systemctl status akmods.service

as the root user, and post what that says.
Maybe there is a clue there.

[uptikool]

Hi mikee

This is what i got for the output

sudo systemctl status akmods.service
[sudo] password for uptikool:
akmods.service - LSB: Builds and install new kmods from akmod packages
Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/akmods)
Active: failed since Thu, 28 Jun 2012 14:30:26 -0500; 7h ago
CGroup: name=systemd:/system/akmods.service

[mikee]

What kind of graphics card is in your computer?
How old is it?

[uptikool]

Thank you for helping me

It is Nvidia gt555m and i baught this laptop last year

[mikee]

Sometimes I think the older stuff works better on linux.
My laptop is about a year old and I installed these drivers.
I think the 3-D accelleration needs to be working for gnome3 to work.
But I see something I don't like in your rpm output.
You have BOTH an akmod-nvidia and a kmod-nvidia installed.
I think you need ONE or the other, but not both.
I wonder if having both installed is confusing things.
Might explain what the akmods service fails.
Maybe try "yum erase akmod-nvidia-295.59-1.fc16.x86_64" and reboot.

[uptikool]

I did what you said and used "yum erase akmod-nvidia-295.59-1.fc16.x86_64"

during the boot sequence i noticed two failed notices they are as follows
failed to start LSB: builds and install new kmod from akmod pakages
see systemctl status akmonds.service for details

init started for tcsd failed

also could you help me with controling when the dedicated gpu is on and off becuse i have a laptop that has 2 gpus one intel HD and the other nvidia gt555m

[mikee]

Were there failures before?
Did the graphics problem get fixed?

In /var/log are some log files to look at.
boot.log and messages.

tcsd talks to the TPM chip on your computer. Was that failing before too?

---------- Post added at 10:03 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:13 AM ----------

If the graphics are not working, look also in /var/log/Xorg.0.log

[uptikool]

tcsd talks to the TPM chip on your computer. Was that failing before too?

this is the new error it wasn't failing before

how do i test to see if the graphics are working

thank you

---------- Post added at 12:20 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:59 AM ----------

i found out what could be wrong
cat: /etc/X11/xorg.conf: No such file or directory

and also do you think that this will help
http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=225401

[mikee]

I might have given you bad advice on uninstalling the module. I wonder if it uninstalled anything else.
You might want to look at /var/log/yum.log to see if anything else was erased besides the packages I had mentioned.
Then do a yum install on those.

I missed in your original post about that file missing.
There should be something called "nvidia X server settings". It will generate a file for you.
It's under "administration" on my XCFE desktop.

I am not familiar with bumblebee (Re: your link)

[ThumbTack]

Getting the same LSB fail error.

x86_64 machine; have Nvidia Quadro FX540 and per Leigh123Linux post on Nvidia drivers, installed the akmod fix.

Upgrades went fine until we got to version 3.4+. F16 Version 3.3.7-1 boots up without any problem, but the latest upgrade put in Version F16 3.4.4-4 which will not boot. Get the LSB fail message followed by an attempt to start the Display Manager which simply hangs. Looking at what failed:

systemctl --failed
akmods.service loaded failed
tcsd.service loaded failed

So far cannot find any messages which gives a good hint as to what is going wrong.

Any suggestions as to how to identify and fix these failures will be much appreciated. In the meantime, I just tell grub to load 3.3.7-1.

[DBelton]

Originally Posted by ThumbTack

Getting the same LSB fail error.

x86_64 machine; have Nvidia Quadro FX540 and per Leigh123Linux post on Nvidia drivers, installed the akmod fix.

Upgrades went fine until we got to version 3.4+. F16 Version 3.3.7-1 boots up without any problem, but the latest upgrade put in Version F16 3.4.4-4 which will not boot. Get the LSB fail message followed by an attempt to start the Display Manager which simply hangs. Looking at what failed:

systemctl --failed
akmods.service loaded failed
tcsd.service loaded failed

So far cannot find any messages which gives a good hint as to what is going wrong.

Any suggestions as to how to identify and fix these failures will be much appreciated. In the meantime, I just tell grub to load 3.3.7-1.

the tcsd.service failing is due to a package called trousers that got installed as a dependency a few weeks ago. The tcsd.service can't run unless your motherboard has a TPM chip on it, but it started the service by default on all systems.

You can fix that error by disabling the tcsd.service

systemctl disable tcsd.service

That will fix that one error, not sure about your akmods failing.

[ThumbTack]

Thank you DBelton. I did disable the tcsd service, but the 3.4 kernel still hangs when trying to start the Display Manager as before. Obviously, the appropriate kmod is not getting done (LSB fail). I may just try to do the kmod directly instead of with the akmod approach. I must say that having an Nvidia card has been a pain in the neck.