Minor problem on new installation - F7 amd64

satimis · #1 3rd June 2007, 02:08 PM

Hi folks,

Fedora 7 amd64
AMD Athlon64 3000
Motherboard - ASUS A8N-VM, on board graphic card
Chipset - nVidia Feforce 6100 GPU
LCD display - NEC MultiSync LCD 1560NX
SATA HD

Just finished installing F-7. Installation went through w/o problem. F-7 started finally.

Following problem found:-

1)
Mouse pointer disappeared, seemingly working behind the screen. I have to deleting "rhgb" on the kernel line of /boot/grub/grub.conf to get the mouse pointer back. What is the problem ??? Tks.

2)
nVidia graphic driver for amd64

On nvidia.com --> Download drivers;

Which of follows shall I select on "Step 2";

Code:

GeForce 8 Series
GeForce 7050/7052 series
GeForce 7 Series
GeForce 6 Series
GeForce FX Series
GeForce 4 Series
GeForce 3 Series
GeForce 2 Series
Geforce 256

3)
During partitioning;
I was unable to assign "/" as /dev/sda2, always taken up by "/var". Disregarding I created either of them first. "/" was always assigned as /dev/sda3.

Please advise. TIA

B.R.
satimis

Nefarious · #2 3rd June 2007, 03:03 PM

2) GeForce 6 Series.

satimis · #3 3rd June 2007, 04:04 PM

Hi Nefarious,

Tks for your advice.

Download and installed following driver

Code:

NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-9755-pkg2.run

But X failed to start with following warnings:

Code:

(EE) Failed to load module 'glx'
(module does not exist 0)
(EE) Failed to load module 'nvidia'
(module does not exits 0)

$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Code:

nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder26)  Mon Feb 26 23:37:58 PST 2007

# Xorg configuration created by pyxf86config

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Default Layout"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
    Option         "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option         "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Unknown"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 110.0
    VertRefresh     50.0 - 150.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Videocard0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
EndSection

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

Please advise how to load the modules.

However I discovered that "vesa" driver work on this box with correct screen resolution displayed.

$ xrandr

Code:

Screen 0: minimum 640 x 480, current 1024 x 768, maximum 1024 x 768
default connected 1024x768+0+0 0mm x 0mm
   1024x768       76.0*
   800x600        73.0
   640x480        73.0

B.R.
satimis

Nefarious · #4 3rd June 2007, 06:22 PM

Here's my xorg.conf file. I've got a 6600, so not that different. I use Livna Drivers instead of compiling my own. Perhaps something in here is the key to getting yours to work.

Code:

# 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"

# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, a font server independent of the X server is
# used to render fonts.
	ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
	ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
	FontPath     "unix/:7100"
EndSection

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

Section "InputDevice"
	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   "ViewSonic"
	ModelName    "LCD Panel 1280x1024"
	HorizSync    30.0 - 80.0
	VertRefresh  50.0 - 85.0
	Option	    "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Videocard0"
	Driver      "nvidia"
	VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
	BoardName   "nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce 6600]"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Videocard0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     16
		Modes    "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
		Modes    "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
	Group        0
	Mode         0666
EndSection

If I had to guess, it might be this:

Code:

Section "Files"

# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, a font server independent of the X server is
# used to render fonts.
	ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
	ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
	FontPath     "unix/:7100"
EndSection

satimis · #5 4th June 2007, 06:59 AM

Hi Nefarious,

Tks for your my xorg.conf file.

Quote:

I've got a 6600, so not that different. I use Livna Drivers instead of compiling my own.

How to uninstall nVidia driver??? I'm considering using Livna Drivers. Installing nVidia driver needs to recompile kernel. I think my problem is there.

I ran nVidia driver on FC6 amd64. It also needed to recompile kernel during installing. But after installation completed, X started w/o problem. I tried Livna Driver, amd64 version, before it also worked w/o problem.

Quote:

If I had to guess, it might be this:

Code:

Section "Files"

# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, a font server independent of the X server is
# used to render fonts.
	ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
	ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
	FontPath     "unix/:7100"
EndSection

This section on xorg.conf of this box is empty.

Performed following steps.

# find / -name nvidia

Code:

/sys/module/nvidia
/sys/module/i2c_core/holders/nvidia
/sys/bus/pci/drivers/nvidia
/proc/driver/nvidia
/lib/modules/2.6.21-1.3194.fc7/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.21-1.3194.fc7-x86_64/drivers/video/nvidia
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.21-1.3194.fc7-x86_64/include/config/fb/nvidia
/var/lib/nvidia

# find / -name modules

Code:

/proc/asound/modules
/proc/modules
/lib/modules
/etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules
/etc/gdm/modules
/etc/selinux/targeted/modules
/etc/selinux/targeted/modules/active/modules
/etc/httpd/modules
/etc/sysconfig/modules
/usr/lib64/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules
/usr/lib64/gimp/2.0/modules
/usr/lib64/openoffice.org/share/config/soffice.cfg/modules
/usr/lib64/openoffice.org/share/registry/modules
/usr/lib64/gthumb/modules
/usr/lib64/httpd/modules
/usr/lib64/gutenprint/5.0.0.99.1/modules
/usr/lib64/php/modules
/usr/lib64/pango/1.6.0/modules
/usr/lib64/silc/modules
/usr/lib64/gtk-2.0/modules
/usr/lib64/libgnomeprint/2.18.0/modules
/usr/lib64/xorg/modules
/usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules
/usr/lib/gutenprint/5.0.0.99.1/modules
/usr/lib/pango/1.6.0/modules
/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules
/usr/lib/libgnomeprint/2.18.0/modules
/usr/lib/xorg/modules
/usr/share/firstboot/modules
/usr/share/doc/lm_sensors-2.10.3/doc/modules
/usr/share/doc/ncurses-devel-5.6/test/modules
/usr/X11R6/lib64/modules

Edited /etc/X11/xorg.conf as follow (FileSection)

Code:

....
Section "Files"
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, a font server independent of the X server is
# used to render fonts.
        ModulePath"/lib/modules/2.6.21-1.3194.fc7/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia
        ModulePath   "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules
        FontPath     "unix/:7100"
EndSection
.....

Rebooted F-7. X still failed to start with a black screen resulted.

B.R.
satimis

Nefarious · #6 4th June 2007, 11:33 AM

If I'm not mistaken, the Livna Driver may overwrite many pieces of the nVidia Driver, if not all of it. When I went from Compiling to Livna, I didn't worry about uninstalling, and I'm having no problems.

satimis · #7 4th June 2007, 05:00 PM

Hi Nefarious,

Problem solved by performing following steps;

1)
Setup Livna Repository
$ sudo rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-7.rpm
$ sudo rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-livna

2)
Install the nvidia driver through Livna:
$ sudo yum install kmod-nvidia

3)
Rebooted F-7

nVidia driver is now working.

$ xrandr

Code:

Screen 0: minimum 320 x 240, current 1024 x 768, maximum 1024 x 768
default connected 1024x768+0+0 0mm x 0mm
   1024x768       50.0*    51.0     52.0
   832x624        53.0
   800x600        54.0     55.0     56.0     57.0
   720x450        58.0
   680x384        59.0     60.0
   640x480        61.0     62.0     63.0     64.0
   640x400        65.0     66.0
   640x384        67.0     68.0     69.0
   640x360        70.0     71.0     72.0
   576x432        73.0
   576x384        74.0
   512x384        75.0     76.0     77.0
   416x312        78.0
   400x300        79.0     80.0     81.0     82.0
   320x240        83.0     84.0     85.0

The line marked with * indicates current screen resolution.

Tks

B.R.
satimis