really need help

[NoOneElse]

You are making a mess by changing Video Cards as if they where USB devices (even USB devices have errors but at least those won't prevent you from booting).

Every time a video card is detected a new driver needs to be installed so the HAL changes the kernel module changes and the whole thing goes "KAPUT" I learn that the hard way. Stick to one video card per system and get the right drivers for it.

Nvidia FX includes several models for which there are corresponding versions of the same driver. Newer versions are not backwards compatible if you need the 173.XX driver you must use that and only that version.

lspci will give you more details on the model you have. in mine it is a FX5200 and requires the 173.XX driver. So I installed the latest akmod-nvidia-173.XX details may be found http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=204752 and it does make a diference whether you are using PAE kernel or not

[bob]

If you have removed those packages (and the other dependent ones that may be involved), then start with Leigh's instructions. Open a terminal, and follow his instructions, one line at a time. For instance:

"su" - it asks for your password

Then copy/paste: (nuts - getting it borked when I try to do it here)... well, the next line from the instructions. And so forth. Keep in mind that you're using a PAE kernel, so copy/paste those lines.

[peter121]

Originally Posted by NoOneElse

You are making a mess by changing Video Cards as if they where USB devices (even USB devices have errors but at least those won't prevent you from booting).

Every time a video card is detected a new driver needs to be installed so the HAL changes the kernel module changes and the whole thing goes "KAPUT" I learn that the hard way. Stick to one video card per system and get the right drivers for it.

Nvidia FX includes several models for which there are corresponding versions of the same driver. Newer versions are not backwards compatible if you need the 173.XX driver you must use that and only that version.

lspci will give you more details on the model you have. in mine it is a FX5200 and requires the 173.XX driver. So I installed the latest akmod-nvidia-173.XX details may be found http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=204752 and it does make a diference whether you are using PAE kernel or not

ok my system is a p4 i686 packard bell

i will try and get this on board one working its a bit slugish at the moment but i am having better luck than the last ones

/home/peter/Downloads/sis_drv.o-402 thats the driver i have its the corect one as i used the serial at the site to get the correct version so i just need to run it now

[bob]

Well, you've opted to use the SiS drivers, which I'm not familiar with, so I'll leave you to experiment & wish you good luck with them.

[peter121]

Originally Posted by bob

Well, you've opted to use the SiS drivers, which I'm not familiar with, so I'll leave you to experiment & wish you good luck with them.

bob i need a program to run it any ideas

[bob]

Read this: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/inde...t-1241800.html

Don't bother trying for 3D. It's not available.

[peter121]

Originally Posted by bob

Read this: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/inde...t-1241800.html

Don't bother trying for 3D. It's not available.

ok thanks for all the help
i will try and reinstall the nvidia tomorow
sorry to be a pain

[3dgrfxguy]

I was in the exact same situation when I upgraded my Fedora Core 8 system to Fedora Core 12.

Installed the Fedora Core live onto the hard disk - no problem.
Ran yum update - no problem.
Tried to install the NVIDIA*.run, remembering to do an init 3, then an init 5
The kernel module compiled but wouldn't load
Learnt all about the 'nouveau' file and how to blacklist it using the kernel configuration file.
Remembered to disable selinux security and renable it.

Even with the 'nouveau' file blacklisted, the nvidia module wouldn't run.
I compared my xorg.conf files and there wasn't anything significantly different.

The problem is that somewhere along the line, when I automatically updated my entire system,
a different set of kmod-nvidia files had been installed. These were for the Nvidia 6800/7800/8800 cards
while I still had the

I had to 'yum erase kmod-nvidia' to get rid of the kmod-nvidia-96xx' files and use
'yum install kmod-nvidia-173xx' to get the proper nvidia drivers.

My configuration is now as follows:

nvidia-xconfig-1.0-1.fc12.i686
nvidia-settings-1.0-3.2.fc12.i686
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173xx-173.14.22-3.fc12.i686
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173xx-libs-173.14.22-3.fc12.i686
xorg-x11-drv-nv-2.1.15-2.fc12.i686
kmod-nvidia-173xx-2.6.31.12-174.2.3.fc12.i686-173.14.22-1.fc12.6.i686
kmod-nvidia-173xx-173.14.22-1.fc12.6.i686

And everything works perfectly!

[bob]

(Except that you've got an older card with different drivers. He needs the 96xx)

[peter121]

okey followed your instruction and put the nvidia back on installed the drivers

thanks all seems to work not sure about the 3d yet but i have not got that black screen

thank u for all your help

this is what i have now

internet pages very choppy when scrolling also tried the 3d screensavers they keep freezing have i missed something

00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 650/M650 Host (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP)
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS961 [MuTIOL Media IO]
00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS961/2 SMBus Controller
00:02.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 07)
00:02.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 07)
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev d0)
00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 03)
00:0b.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy Game Port (rev 03)
00:0b.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Creative Labs SB Audigy FireWire Port
00:10.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 MX 440] (rev a3)

kmod-nvidia-96xx-2.6.31.12-174.2.3.fc12.i686.PAE-96.43.14-1.fc12.6.i686
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-96xx-libs-96.43.14-3.fc12.i686
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-96xx-96.43.14-3.fc12.i686
kmod-nvidia-96xx-PAE-96.43.14-1.fc12.6.i686
nvidia-settings-1.0-3.2.fc12.i686
nvidia-xconfig-1.0-1.fc12.i686[

ok got the 3d all working now
done a yum install kmod-nvidia-96xx- it installed them again now looks like

[kmod-nvidia-96xx-2.6.31.12-174.2.3.fc12.i686-96.43.14-1.fc12.6.i686
kmod-nvidia-96xx-2.6.31.12-174.2.3.fc12.i686.PAE-96.43.14-1.fc12.6.i686
kmod-nvidia-96xx-96.43.14-1.fc12.6.i686
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-96xx-libs-96.43.14-3.fc12.i686
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-96xx-96.43.14-3.fc12.i686
kmod-nvidia-96xx-PAE-96.43.14-1.fc12.6.i686
nvidia-settings-1.0-3.2.fc12.i686
nvidia-xconfig-1.0-1.fc12.i686

firefox stil chopey i will reinstall it i can go on my website now without the system loging me out so a good start to the day

Thanks to all that helped me with this

[3dgrfxguy]

I've noticed Firefox is a bit choppy as well. If the lower border of the web-page is below the icon panel at the bottom of the screen, the web-page gets all chopped up when scrolling. Otherwise if the border is above the icon panel, there is no choppiness.

Not too happy about the way the industry standard gl.h, glu.h, and glext.h have been replaced by the Mesa-GL header files. That is causing some name clashes with custom OpenGL extension function calls.

[cagonto1980]

Hi.

It is useful to take a look on the known bugs web page:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/Common

It advises not to use NVidia and ATI drivers.
It seeems there is a free driver for NVIDIA cards called nouveau that shoots some troubles.
It also warns about some bugs related with NVidia and ATI graphic adapters and 3D features, that probably will be corrected in future.

When I updated to Fedora 12, I could solve the error "Fatal server error: no screens found" by adding the following parameter to the kernel when booting from GRUB:

nomodeset

Hope it's useful.

Regards.