F16,F15 & F14 Nvidia driver guides - Page 53

fangel · #**781** 1st December 2009, 05:12 PM

Thank you both for your quick answers. It worked like a charm. The only thing is the login screen of the gdm which has not changed but that is not a problem.
Thanks once again.

Hobashira · #**782** 1st December 2009, 05:13 PM

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Originally Posted by fangel

Thank you both for your quick answers. It worked like a charm. The only thing is the login screen of the gdm which has not changed but that is not a problem.
Thanks once again.

Yes, same problem here.
I sort of gave up on the login screen.
Has anyone an idea?

fangel · #**783** 1st December 2009, 05:14 PM

Just follow Leighs solution and it should work..If you follow what you say you will just solve the desktop thing and not the login...

Hobashira · #**784** 1st December 2009, 05:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fangel

Just follow Leighs solution and it should work..If you follow what you say you will just solve the desktop thing and not the login...

Will do

Icm76 · #**785** 1st December 2009, 07:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by leigh123linux

Here's the latest Nvidia 190.42 driver that I have packaged

Are the DKMS drivers expected to work correctly with F12 64bit? I tried these last night with no luck having installed F12 64bit from the DVD, and got the latest packages during install. I did a copy & paste of Leigh's instructions from post 5. Nouveau drivers still loaded so I used the "setsebool -P allow_execstack on" command and uninstalled Nouveau via the Yum Extender. Resulted in a frozen screen with corrupt garbage (didn't get as far as the login screen)

I figured my mistake was uninstalling Nouveau, however this afternoon I tried a fresh install of F12 and followed the instructions in post 1 for the rpmfusion KMOD driver including blacklisting Nouveau. Same result as before i.e. frozen screen with corruption, though this time I noticed that there had been a kernel update - loading the alternate kernel just halted before the login screen but didn't corrupt as before (sorry I didn't note down which kernel or the text when it stalled)

Now, with the 3rd fresh install I have kernel-2.6.31.6.145.fc12.x86_64 only. So should AKMOD work? or is a different step required for the new kernel regardless of the Nvidia driver version? EDIT: installed AKMOD driver just now and it seems to be OK after doing the extra step of erasing Nouveau (as per post 1 instruction)

oloeriubogdan · #**786** 1st December 2009, 07:26 PM

I have used the instructions listed hear. Still i do not have a proper nvidia card installed. My computer is a 64 bit system with a Gforce GXT 275 Nvidia graphic card. It was working fine in fedora 11 using the Nvidia driver but nouveau blocked the driver installation for fedora 12. By know I've reinstalled my sistems atleast 9 times while trying to fix this. For me this is quite important to get it working because I'm using the HDMI for video and audio.

on my last try this is what I've done with no success.
Cleand install:

Code:

su
yum update
rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm
yum update
yum --enablerepo=rp*g install kmod-nvidia-$(uname -r) xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.x86_64 
sed -i '/root=UUID/s|$| rdblacklist=nouveau|' /boot/grub/grub.conf
setsebool -P allow_execstack on
yum erase xorg-x11-drv-nouveau
mv  /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau.ko /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau.txt
mv /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r)-nouveau.img
dracut /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)

everything executed with no problem exect for the last command that outputted

Code:

W: Possible missing firmware ql8100_fw.bin for module qla2xxx.ko
W: Possible missing firmware aic94xx-seq.fw for module aic94xx.ko

Please help.

jbkt23 · #**787** 2nd December 2009, 12:55 AM

I read through Leighs instructions last night and thought I saw lines that refered to x86_64 rpms.
I am now about to follow the four steps, 3 since I don't use selinux and there are no x86_64 packages called in the scripts.

What's up?

***Hlingler*** · #**788** 2nd December 2009, 12:59 AM

The instructions are generic, and intended to work for all users. On a 32-bit OS, the 64-bit packages will simply be unavailable and therefore skipped/ignored. If you are comfortable and know what you're doing, you may safely modify the commands accordingly.

Is that what you're referring to ?

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MadManDeX · #**789** 2nd December 2009, 01:16 AM

I've followed the instructions for the F11 PAE "The nouveau" case and now I have a problem, usually when I used application that involved my video card (3d etc) Ex:games , those programs automatically recognised my video card( I had fedora 8,9,10) in this case the apps don't recognise it. I'm not a very experienced linux user ... Thank you!

jbkt23 · #**790** 2nd December 2009, 03:23 AM

Hingler,
It may be that I am going senile. But the format of the yum install line has changed from what I saw yesterday and what I see today. What I thought I saw yesterday was:

yum enablerepo=rpm*g install kmod-nvidia-$(uname -m) x-drv.......

and what I see today is:

yum install kmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686

I assume that xorg-xll-drv-nvidia-libs.x86_64 will be installed as a dependency of kmod-nvidia

***Hlingler*** · #**791** 2nd December 2009, 03:33 AM

No, you are not going senile, the codes in Post #1 have changed - presumably because RPMFusion pushed the packages to "updates" (from updates-testing).

I would certainly hope that xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.x86_64 will be installed as a dependency of kmod-nvidia.x86_64

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ire_solas · #**792** 2nd December 2009, 04:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by leigh123linux

No it isn't, it's only a beta ( when I tried it, it run like crap, real slow rendering

).

Well.I'd better waiting for the final release.

MadManDeX · #**793** 2nd December 2009, 10:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MadManDeX

I've followed the instructions for the F11 PAE "The nouveau" case and now I have a problem, usually when I used application that involved my video card (3d etc) Ex:games , those programs automatically recognised my video card( I had fedora 8,9,10) in this case the apps don't recognise it. I'm not a very experienced linux user ... Thank you!

forgot to add :

Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
EndSection

sry

jbkt23 · #**794** 2nd December 2009, 11:47 AM

Hlingler,

Thanks, I feel better. Most folks may not notice the changes. For me, I usually have to schedule when I make changes and updates so as to not interfere with the other users needs, and that requires anticipating the steps to do and undo depending on the outcome.

It may not seem like much but the last edited field on the post should reflect the true last edit.

ire_solas · #**795** 2nd December 2009, 02:58 PM

My notebook is dv2803tx with nvidia 8400m.
Yesterday I was exploring website. I refreshed FF,the screen suddenly went flashing constently.But it's finally got ok after a few seconds.
Unfortunately I met with the crash again.I shut down the power and restart.The only thing I can see is blankscreen ,no BIOS information.