nvidia module works halfway on Fedora 8

gertdesmet · #1 21st December 2007, 08:24 PM

Short version :

Since I have installed Fedora 8, every opengl application I use crashes after a while.

Long version :

Hello,

I have a strange problem with my nvidia module, I will try to explain it here :

My hardware config always worked with Fedora and the livna module but since Fedora 8, I can't seem to make it work perfectly. I have a GeForce 7900 GS on an Asus P5B motherboard. I dual-boot with XP for some games and it still works perfectly on that side.

On Fedora, I play Nexuiz and use Wine for some other Windows games. Since I installed Fedora 8 and the kmod-nvidia module from livna, I cannot make anything work :

The first thing I noticed was after installing the module and rebooting, I didnt see the Nvidia logo even the module was loaded OK. Then it got worst : Nexuiz freezes the computer if I try to change the resolution, the Wine games install ok but when I launch them they always freeze at some point. The MatrixGL screensaver works fine for a while, but if come back after more then 20 minutes, the screen is black, and i have a message saying that xscreensaver closed because of an error. If I enable desktop effects, same thing, it works fine but after a while everything gets really slow then it freezes.

I really dont know what else to check since the module seems to be installed and loaded correctly... modprobe gives no output, glxgears runs ok but the wheels seems to be slower then it use to be when it worked on FC7.

Here is how i installed the module :

Code:

[gert@nuxbox ~]$ uname -r
2.6.23.9-85.fc8

[root@nuxbox ~]# yum install kmod-nvidia
Loading "priorities" plugin
124 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package kmod-nvidia.i686 0:100.14.19-20.lvn8 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: kmod-nvidia-2.6.23.9-85.fc8 = 100.14.19-20.lvn8 for package: kmod-nvidia
--> Running transaction check
---> Package kmod-nvidia-2.6.23.9-85.fc8.i686 0:100.14.19-20.lvn8 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: nvidia-kmod-common >= 100.14.19 for package: kmod-nvidia-2.6.23.9-85.fc8
--> Running transaction check
---> Package xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.i386 0:100.14.19-4.lvn8 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

=============================================================================
 Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size 
=============================================================================
Installing for dependencies:
 kmod-nvidia             i686       100.14.19-20.lvn8  livna              21 k
 kmod-nvidia-2.6.23.9-85.fc8  i686       100.14.19-20.lvn8  livna             2.1 M
 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia     i386       100.14.19-4.lvn8  livna             4.9 M

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install      3 Package(s)         
Update       0 Package(s)         
Remove       0 Package(s)         

Total download size: 7.0 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
(1/3): kmod-nvidia-100.14 100% |=========================|  21 kB    00:00     
(2/3): kmod-nvidia-2.6.23 100% |=========================| 2.1 MB    00:04     
(3/3): xorg-x11-drv-nvidi 100% |=========================| 4.9 MB    00:10     
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
  Installing: kmod-nvidia                  ######################### [1/3] 
  Installing: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia          ######################### [2/3] 
  Installing: kmod-nvidia-2.6.23.9-85.fc8  ######################### [3/3] 

Dependency Installed: kmod-nvidia.i686 0:100.14.19-20.lvn8 kmod-nvidia-2.6.23.9-85.fc8.i686 0:100.14.19-20.lvn8 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.i386 0:100.14.19-4.lvn8
Complete!

[gert@nuxbox ~]$ glxgears
76702 frames in 5.0 seconds = 15340.363 FPS
75450 frames in 5.0 seconds = 15089.970 FPS
74528 frames in 5.0 seconds = 14905.570 FPS
76735 frames in 5.0 seconds = 15346.957 FPS
75566 frames in 5.0 seconds = 15113.083 FPS
76615 frames in 5.0 seconds = 15322.837 FPS
76539 frames in 5.0 seconds = 15307.736 FPS
76717 frames in 5.0 seconds = 15343.345 FPS
76201 frames in 5.0 seconds = 15240.167 FPS
76088 frames in 5.0 seconds = 15217.493 FPS
76685 frames in 5.0 seconds = 15336.880 FPS
74439 frames in 5.0 seconds = 14887.708 FPS

[root@nuxbox ~]# modprobe nvidia
[root@nuxbox ~]# 

[root@nuxbox ~]# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
udf                    75493  1 
rfcomm                 36825  0 
l2cap                  25537  9 rfcomm
bluetooth              49317  4 rfcomm,l2cap
autofs4                20421  2 
nls_utf8                5825  3 
cifs                  204469  3 
sunrpc                140765  1 
nf_conntrack_ipv4      11717  1 
ipt_REJECT              7617  2 
iptable_filter          6465  1 
ip_tables              14213  1 iptable_filter
nf_conntrack_ipv6      18769  1 
xt_state                6081  2 
nf_conntrack           51849  3 nf_conntrack_ipv4,nf_conntrack_ipv6,xt_state
nfnetlink               8281  3 nf_conntrack_ipv4,nf_conntrack_ipv6,nf_conntrack
xt_tcpudp               6977  6 
ip6t_ipv6header         6209  2 
ip6t_REJECT             8257  2 
ip6table_filter         6337  1 
ip6_tables             15109  2 ip6t_ipv6header,ip6table_filter
x_tables               14277  7 ipt_REJECT,ip_tables,xt_state,xt_tcpudp,ip6t_ipv6header,ip6t_REJECT,ip6_tables
cpufreq_ondemand       10317  2 
acpi_cpufreq           12365  0 
loop                   16581  0 
dm_multipath           18249  0 
ipv6                  245989  16 nf_conntrack_ipv6,ip6t_REJECT
snd_hda_intel         274529  3 
snd_seq_dummy           6725  0 
snd_seq_oss            29889  0 
snd_seq_midi_event      9793  1 snd_seq_oss
firewire_ohci          18497  0 
firewire_core          36097  1 firewire_ohci
snd_seq                44849  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
nvidia               6212560  24 
snd_seq_device         10061  3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
parport_pc             26981  0 
snd_pcm_oss            37569  0 
snd_mixer_oss          16705  2 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                63685  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
3c59x                  40553  0 
snd_timer              20549  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
parport                32393  1 parport_pc
i2c_i801               12113  0 
pcspkr                  6593  0 
snd_page_alloc         11337  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
atl1                   31565  0 
snd_hwdep              10309  1 snd_hda_intel
iTCO_wdt               13797  0 
crc_itu_t               6081  1 firewire_core
iTCO_vendor_support     7109  1 iTCO_wdt
snd                    43461  13 snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
mii                     8385  2 3c59x,atl1
i2c_core               21825  2 nvidia,i2c_i801
button                 10448  0 
soundcore               9633  2 snd
joydev                 11649  0 
sg                     31965  0 
sr_mod                 17509  1 
floppy                 53125  0 
cdrom                  33889  1 sr_mod
ahci                   23493  0 
pata_jmicron            8257  1 
dm_snapshot            17765  0 
dm_zero                 5825  0 
dm_mirror              21569  0 
dm_mod                 46209  9 dm_multipath,dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror
ata_generic             8901  0 
ata_piix               16709  2 
libata                100145  4 ahci,pata_jmicron,ata_generic,ata_piix
sd_mod                 27329  3 
scsi_mod              119757  4 sg,sr_mod,libata,sd_mod
ext3                  110665  2 
jbd                    52457  1 ext3
mbcache                10177  1 ext3
uhci_hcd               23633  0 
ohci_hcd               21445  0 
ehci_hcd               31821  0

gertdesmet · #2 22nd December 2007, 09:40 AM

Any suggestions ?

I have tried to reinstall F8 twice, I also tried to use the Nvidia driver from Nvidia's website but its the same problem. No errors, no Nvidia logo at startup, module loads, opengl works but still can't play any games without freeze or crash. So I installed Debian Etch to see what would happen on another Linux distro and it works perfectly like it use to in Fedora 7.

So I guess it could be kernel related because Debian uses older versions.... but why the hell i dont get any errors, warnings, anything except that missing logo

I am lost

szandor · #3 6th January 2008, 08:05 AM

it looks like you never changed the display driver from nvv to nvidia which would be why you do not have all the fancy nvidia logo's, direct rendering, etc. you could have verified this from glxinfo. also, i believe kmod-nvidia requires kernel-devel to be installed as well.