Fedora 9 livna kmod-nvidia-173.14.05 problems

[masch]

Hi! I have Dell notebook with 7400M NVIDIA, i can't git it work in Fedora9. My xorg.log it is this:
(**) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia,/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia//libglx.so
(II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//nvidia_drv.so
(II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
(II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"

Do you know what it's the problem?

Salu2...

[Trav]

I have tried both PCI 1 and PCI 3 and neither one will load up X. I'm still being dumped to a console screen at startup. I'm running dual 8800gt's Any ideas? Also, system-config-display just errors out

[masch]

HI!
Have you try the kmod-nvidia-2.6.25.6-55.fc9.i686-173.14.09-1.lvn9.i686 version?..
This version works with any property.

Salu2...

[Trav]

Originally Posted by masch

HI!
Have you try the kmod-nvidia-2.6.25.6-55.fc9.i686-173.14.09-1.lvn9.i686 version?..
This version works with any property.

Salu2...

Hi, Thank you for the reply.

I already have this version installed, only x86_64, not i686.

[masch]

You can send an email to nvidia, like i did it. to do it look this post:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showth...18#post1031718
Look the post 16.

Salu2...

[newiLuvatar]

check your /var/log/Xorg.0.log for the bus id's.
mine looks like this:

(!!) More than one possible primary device found
(--) PCI: (0@1:0:0) nVidia Corporation GeForce 8500 GT rev 161, Mem @ 0xec000000/16777216, 0xc0000000/536870912, 0xea000000/33554432, I/O @ 0x0000df00/128, BIOS @ 0x????????/131072
(--) PCI: (0@10:0:0) nVidia Corporation GeForce 8500 GT rev 161, Mem @ 0xe8000000/16777216, 0xa0000000/536870912, 0xe6000000/33554432, I/O @ 0x00004f00/128, BIOS @ 0x????????/131072

so I would have to set the bus id either to 1 or 10

[masch]

Have you try this:

[Vince@presario Mon Jun 16 17:44:38 ~]$ sudo sh /usr/bin/nvidia-bug-report.sh
Password:

Running nvidia-bug-report.sh... complete.

The file nvidia-bug-report.log has been created; please send this report,
along with a description of your bug, to linux-bugs@nvidia.com.

[Vince@presario Mon Jun 16 17:44:52 ~]$ ls -lha nvidia-bug-report.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root Vince 169K 2008-06-16 17:44 nvidia-bug-report.log
[Vince@presario Mon Jun 16 17:47:08 ~]$

Salu2

[lanrat]

In case this helps, I was having a similar problem, this is how I fixed it. http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1035293

[CJB]

Originally Posted by newiLuvatar

I was once able to install a kmod-nvidia before the right kernel was in the repository (don't ask how that could happen ). it seems livna is a little faster in adding releases than the other fedora repositories (at least this was the case in fedora 8).
you can check if your kernel and the kmod-nvidia have the same version

$ rpm -qa | grep kmod-nvidia
kmod-nvidia-2.6.25.3-18.fc9.x86_64-173.14.05-2.lvn9.x86_64
kmod-nvidia-173.14.05-2.lvn9.x86_64

$ uname -r
2.6.25.3-18.fc9.x86_64

both kernel version numbers have to match

Hey, I'm fairly new to Linux so please excuse my ignorance

This post was useful to read - because, sure enough, after installing nvidia drivers via yum, I get an "nvidia.ko" not found during bootup. I still have the same graphical interface as I did before, but with the driver not loaded I can't find a way to set up my dual screens so they don't both display the same thing.

[root@CJB CJB]# uname -r
2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64
[root@CJB CJB]# yum list installed |grep nvidia
kmod-nvidia.x86_64                       173.14.09-4.lvn9       installed       
kmod-nvidia-2.6.25.10-86.fc9.x86_64.x86_ 173.14.09-4.lvn9       installed       
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.x86_64               173.14.09-1.lvn9       installed       
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.x86_64          173.14.09-1.lvn9       installed

As you can see, my version numbers don't match. I don't particularly want to roll back to the old version of the Fedora kernel, so is there any way I can get updated nvidia drivers that work with the current version? Or do I just have to keep on periodically doing yum updates?

Thanks in advance

[newiLuvatar]

this can happen if you just installed a new kernel but didn't reboot before installing the kmod. because if you don't reboot yum will install the kmod for the kernel which you are currently using. then, after reboot, the new kernel is loaded but the right kmod is missing. so a yum update kmod-nvidia should do the trick.

[CJB]

[root@CJB2FEDORA CJB]# yum update kmod-nvidia
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
fedora                                                   | 2.4 kB     00:00     
livna                                                    | 2.1 kB     00:00     
updates                                                  | 2.3 kB     00:00     
primary.sqlite.bz2                                       | 2.5 MB     00:03     
Setting up Update Process
Could not find update match for kmod-nvidia
No Packages marked for Update

Thanks a lot for your help. Unfortunately, this (above) is what I get when I try a yum update kmod-nvidia... Does this mean I just need to keep on trying, occasionally?

If nvidia drivers are regularly released a while after kernel updates, do most people have to spend time in between without them? Or waiting for the nvidia drivers to be released before they update their kernel?? As that doesn't make a lot of sense, I find it more likely that I've made a mistake somewhere...

Thanks again

[newiLuvatar]

well, the people from livna are usually even faster in putting new releases online...
it seems there's something wrong with your kernel version.
i get:

$ uname -r
2.6.25.10-86.fc9.x86_64

and

$ rpm -qa | grep kmod-nvidia
kmod-nvidia-173.14.09-4.lvn9.x86_64
kmod-nvidia-2.6.25.10-86.fc9.x86_64-173.14.09-4.lvn9.x86_64

so you have the newest kmod but not the newest kernel, somewhat odd...
i'm sorry i'm not experienced enough to tell you how to solve that, if nothing else works i'd wait until the next kernel comes out. if that doesn't work either i'd go with reinstalling

[CJB]

Is my kernel, 2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64, not more recent than yours, 2.6.25.10-86.fc9.x86_64?

I get exactly the same output for the nvidia driver versions. So I guess I have the latest kernel, but only the nvidia driver for the kernel version you have? I'll keep checking to see when a "matching" nvidia driver is released for my 2.6.25-14 kernel. Thanks a lot for your help!

Edit: just to confirm that, choosing the new kernel 2.6.25.10-86.fc9.x86_64 from the boot list loads the drivers fine :-)

[Hlingler]

Originally Posted by CJB

Is my kernel, 2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64, not more recent than yours, 2.6.25.10-86.fc9.x86_64?

No: 2.6.25.10 > 2.6.25 and 86 > 14.

I get exactly the same output for the nvidia driver versions. So I guess I have the latest kernel, but only the nvidia driver for the kernel version you have? I'll keep checking to see when a "matching" nvidia driver is released for my 2.6.25-14 kernel. Thanks a lot for your help!

Edit: just to confirm that, choosing the old kernel 2.6.25.10-86.fc9.x86_64 from the boot list loads the drivers fine :-)

See above. 2.6.25.10-86.fc9 is latest stable.

V

[CJB]

I see - thanks for clarifying. I had assumed 14 > 10 and hyphens/dots were interchangeable. ¬_¬

Dual monitor display is working perfectly now, thank you all for your help!