FC6 Problem With Nvidia Driver

[NAC]

My pc is AMD64, installed FC6 64bit version.

I Didi

rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm

Install the Nvidia driver:

yum install kmod-nvidia

no errors during the yum
a very funny thing happened, my grub has 2 options now

1. Fedora Core 6 (2.6.18-1.2798.FC6xen)
2. Fedora Core 6 (2.6.18-1.2798)

if i choose the original (1) i met error about
cannot find nividia.ko

if i choose the option 2, then i met error like:

starting sysstat: calling the system activity data collector (sadc) realloc: success [failed]

Option 2 can find Nvidia Graphic Card, but cannot get online.

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If i install driver manually, "sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-8776-pkg2.run"
it says, cannot find kernel source, and ask me to install that, but i cannot find something like kernel source 2.6.18-1.2798.FC6xen x86_64 this file.

I am new to linux, hope someone could help.

thanks a lot

[NAC]

by the way my FC6 with xen

[jbkt23]

When you exicuted the yum install kmod-nvidia command did you whatch the output? I don't think there is a xen nvidia module so it probably installed the kernel that is supported.

jbkt23

[NAC]

thanks jbkt23, i've forgotten the output, just remembered there was no error info when i doing that.
and what i think it installed the kernel may not match (2.6.18-1.2798.FC6xen)

[Thetargos]

Did you install the kmod for your xen kernel too? What does it happen if you try to boot into single user mode, and then query the rpm database for the installed kmod-nvidia packages? To boot into single user mode, just edit your grub prompt (type "e" at the kernel entry, then "e" again at the kernel command line and append a number 1 to the end, then just press enter and then "b" to boot)

What do you see with

rpm -qa | grep kmod

or better yet

rpm -qa | grep nvidia

? You should have at least two kmod packages installed, you may want to also

yum search kmod-nvidia

and then pull the right one for your xen kernel.

[NAC]

thanks a lot,Thetargos
i am going to fix it

[Thetargos]

I forgot to mention, you may require to issue

/sbin/service network start

within runlevel 1, to activate the netwrok services, as I'm not sure if the network is "live" on runlevel 1 (I believe it is not)

[NAC]

starting sysstat: calling the system activity data collector (sadc) realloc: success ［failed］

what does this do?
I cannot get online if i lost it

[Thetargos]

Can you get online from init 3? (runlevel 3, text mode, network services active)

[NAC]

no i cannot ping nothing.
and i diid

Yum install kmod-nvidia-xen

and then i have 2 options,
Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2849.fc6)
Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2849.fc6xen)
fc6xen is working well now, and can get online everything has done, but the fc6 cannot.
still got
starting sysstat: calling the system activity data collector (sadc) realloc: success ［failed］

[NAC]

anyway, thanks a lot Thetargos,
thanks for u been helping me so far.
really appreciate

[Thetargos]

Ok this whole Xen thing has gotten me confused. You are hosting any VMs on your machine or is your FC6 installation a virtualized one? Why would you require Xen any other way? Are you running FC6 under a VM or something?

[NAC]

no, i am not running FC6 under a VM or something,
i installed from DVD FC6 64bit, and I did default installation,
frankly, i dont know what is Xen at all, I dont wanna use fc6xen,but it doesnt work on FC6 properly. and FC6 installed by yum.

after i commanded:
yum install kmod-nvidia.
so...

[Thetargos]

OK, so mystery solved: You will have to remove any references to xen (yum remove *xen*). Since you installed a xen kernel, I'm sure the problem is that it modified the system in such a way that you can't run a straight one. Once you remove every reference to xen you should be able to boot normally (I hope)

[NAC]

thanks hopefully