F16,F15 & F14 Nvidia driver guides

[rebmobwins]

Originally Posted by leigh123linux

The quiet box suppresses some of the boot up info and the 0x0 number is the frame-buffer value.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...Graphical_boot

You are so very helpful, thanks.

[Arpage]

Thank you for this post. I've succesfully installed the latest stable driver for my 8800GTX on F14!

Now just to get the overclocking option fully functional... but that's a different topic

[rebmobwins]

I followed your guide and got my nvidia on-board drivers working, I was wondering if I Installed my GeForce GTS450 EVGA card in my computer will it just boot up and recognize it, or do I need to change it.

I thought I wouldn't have to modify anything because this card falls in the same category on your tutorial as my on-board graphics card. Really curious before I put it in my computer, thanks Leigh!

[aCROX999]

Originally Posted by rebmobwins

I followed your guide and got my nvidia on-board drivers working, I was wondering if I Installed my GeForce GTS450 EVGA card in my computer will it just boot up and recognize it, or do I need to change it.

I thought I wouldn't have to modify anything because this card falls in the same category on your tutorial as my on-board graphics card. Really curious before I put it in my computer, thanks Leigh!

I'm sure it'd recognize your card immediately after you've installed your card on your PC.

[murraymn]

Finally got the proprietary Nvidia drivers to work at 1920x1200 resolution on a Sony SDM-P234 using a GeForce FX 5700. Trick was in the xorg.conf, Option "ModeValidation" "NoMaxPClkCheck".

This is the whole thing, I wanted to use just the digital connection, hence the Option "UseDisplayDevice" "DFP".

# nvidia-xconfig
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1"
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"

# generated from data in "/etc/sysconfig/keyboard"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 28.0 - 92.0
VertRefresh 48.0 - 85.0
Option "DPMS"

EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
Option "UseDisplayDevice" "DFP"
Option "ModeValidation" "NoMaxPClkCheck"

EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

[leigh123linux]

F15 nvidia guide added

[toddbailey]

would you care to expand this tutorial to include the Nvidia drivers that can be downloaded from their site?

I just installed F15 x64 beta and nouveau refuses to die...

[leigh123linux]

Originally Posted by toddbailey

would you care to expand this tutorial to include the Nvidia drivers that can be downloaded from their site?

I just installed F15 x64 beta and nouveau refuses to die...

No.

[toddbailey]

Can you at least tell me how to disable the nouveau drivers?

The F15 update doesn't solve the problem.. -- rdblacklist in grub.conf and blacklist in the blacklist.conf

don't complete the task

[leigh123linux]

Originally Posted by toddbailey

Can you at least tell me how to disable the nouveau drivers?

The F15 update doesn't solve the problem.. -- rdblacklist in grub.conf and blacklist in the blacklist.conf

don't complete the task

Sorry I don't offer any support for non rpm methods ie: run files from nvidia.com

[toddbailey]

OK, thanks but isn't this what this forum is about, to exchange ideas and help each other solve various issues?

I don't expect you personally to resolve the issue but it seems that recently any feedback I received is counter productive.

After all the sub title reads "a fedora linux support community"

Maybe the title needs to be revised a bit.

[leigh123linux]

Originally Posted by toddbailey

OK, thanks but isn't this what this forum is about, to exchange ideas and help each other solve various issues?

I don't expect you personally to resolve the issue but it seems that recently any feedback I received is counter productive.

After all the sub title reads "a fedora linux support community"

Maybe the title needs to be revised a bit.

The reason I don't support the run file method is because it replaces system files, this isn't a good idea.

I don't expect you personally to resolve the issue but it seems that recently any feedback I received is counter productive.

Try asking for help in the right thread would help this issue, I wasn't being counter productive, your question doesn't belong in this thread .

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=234595

After all the sub title reads "a fedora linux support community"

Maybe the title needs to be revised a bit.

The title on this sub-forum is Guides & Solutions (No Questions)

[0zer0]

Ok, this will be my third try at getting these drivers installed. I'm dual-booting Ubuntu 10.04 and Fedora 14. WHen I installed Fedora, I skipped the GRUB install so GRUB resides in my Ubuntu install.

I followed the steps given in the guide, which is nicely done and well written BTW, and when I reboot, I'm now getting a failure during boot-up, however it will boot all the way to a functional desktop. I've included a picture of the failure(my apologies for the poor quality).

The last couple of times I've done this, after the desktop comes up I executed 'nvidia-xconfig' and then reboot. That's where my past installs have fell apart. Fedora would hang during boot, but I could 'Ctrl+Alt+F2' into a TTY. I spent a couple of hours searching for an answer to this problem using 'elinks', but to no avail.

Before I do anything else, I'd like some advice as to what to do next. Is there anyway I can be sure that the drivers are installed correctly? Any way that I can tell which driver is currently being used? Since GRUB resides on my Ubuntu install, will I still be able to blacklist nouveau?

From: [Ubuntu] /boot/grub/grub.cfg ;

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
menuentry "Fedora release 14 (Laughlin) (on /dev/sdb3)" {
        insmod ext2
        set root='(hd1,1)'
        search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 27e96fd8-9e08-42ac-95dc-96ee7a966761
        linux /vmlinuz-2.6.35.6-45.fc14.i686 root=/dev/sdb3
}
### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###

I'm looking at possibly switching to Fedora and this is one of the few hitches that I've encountered. Any help is very much appreciated.

[0zer0]

Not really sure what happened except for a kernel update but lspci -vv shows this:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
....

Kernel driver in use: nvidia
Kernel modules: nvidia, nouveau, nvidiafb

Now I have to fix the refresh rate, the flicker is killing my eyes. It seems to be @ about 60Hz, but the 'Display' tool only shows an option of 0Hz. I'm sure I need to use the NVIDIA tool, but it wants me to execute `nvidia-xconfig` and that's where most of my problems began the last times I installed these drivers.... :\

Edit: Hurray! Fedora booted up fine after running 'nvidia-xconfig'.

[T-Fen]

I have an nVidia GeForce 7600 GS and am unable to get X working in Fedora 15 beta (kernel 2.6.38.5-22.fc15.i686.PAE).

I have the SELinux disabled (to rule that out) and the following nvidia RPMs installed:

nvidia-settings-1.0-9.fc15.i686
nvidia-xconfig-1.0-7.fc15.i686
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-270.41.03-1.fc15.i686
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-270.41.03-1.fc15.i686
akmod-nvidia-270.41.03-1.fc15.i686

xorg log shows:

[    12.669] (II) Loading extension DRI2
[    12.669] (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
[    12.669] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
[    12.669] (II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
[    12.669]    compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
[    12.669]    Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[    12.672] (EE) NVIDIA: Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module. Please check your
[    12.672] (EE) NVIDIA:     system's kernel log for additional error messages.
[    12.672] (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
[    12.672] (II) Unloading nvidia
[    12.672] (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module-specific error, 0)
[    12.672] (EE) No drivers available.
[    12.672] 
Fatal server error:
[    12.672] no screens found
[    12.672] 
Please consult the Fedora Project support 
         at http://wiki.x.org

Please let me know what other info to provide.

Thanks!