Trying to get online

[purcell]

I've been trying to get online for the better part of a week now with no luck. I can't get my network up to download drivers for my hardware - without the drivers I have no GUI so I'm stuck trying to do this in text mode. Not sure what info is needed for this but if you need anything please let me know and I can post. I've checked the forums and google but can't find anything that will help with my problem.

Thanks

by the sounds it you need the 3D drivers?. but what videocard do you have?

[purcell]

nvidia 9800gt for video card. I tried http://dnmouse.org/nvidia.html to get the drivers but I can't get a connection to download. Not sure if it matters but I'm currently running my monitor through my motherboard connection - I get nothing if I try and run it through my videocard.
thanks

[Firewing1]

Do you have a USB key that you could save the driver packages onto?

wierd. what Make/Model is your Monitor?

[purcell]

I have a 2gb usb key - I'm not sure how big the packages are though (firewing1)
Also not sure where to get them since the site recommended to me involved text cmds to download them?


Monitor: Sceptre X22HG-Naga

[purcell]

I downloaded the drivers from nvidia for the 64bit version onto a usb but how do I get those files from the usb onto the computer?
thanks

dont use the drivers from nvidia, use the drivers from RPMFusion.org

[purcell]

which one do I need from that site?
thanks

[Jake]

Demz, why to not use Nvidia drivers from nvidia?

They do work BTW. I use them, and the drivers from RPM fusion appear to be just an easier way to install them, and compiles it for you.

@OP:

If you have a .run file. You can run the file like:

$ cd /media/usbdrivename/
$ sh ./NV<Press tab to complete it for you>

[Firewing1]

Originally Posted by purcell

I have a 2gb usb key - I'm not sure how big the packages are though (firewing1)
Also not sure where to get them since the site recommended to me involved text cmds to download them?


Monitor: Sceptre X22HG-Naga

I'm assuming you're using Fedora 10 64-bit (x86_64) - if not, let me know and I'll give you other download links since these will only work for F10 x86_64. If you're not sure what you're running, post the output of the following commands from the Linux machine:

uname -rm;cat /etc/fedora-release

Here's the packages you need for F10 x86_64:
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-180.29-1.fc10.x86_64.rpm
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-180.29-1.fc10.x86_64.rpm
kmod-nvidia-180.29-1.fc10.x86_64.rpm
kmod-nvidia-2.6.27.15-170.2.24.fc10.x86_64-180.29-1.fc10. x86_64.rpm
kernel-firmware-2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.noarch.rpm
kernel-2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.x86_64.rpm
Download those to your USB key, then plug it into the Linux machine and run this:

su -                  --> Enter your root password here when asked
mkdir /mnt/usbkey
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usbkey
cd /mnt/usbkey
rpm -Uhv kernel-firmware* && rm kernel-firmware*
rpm -ihv *.rpm

Reboot and that's all!

Edit: I saw you said you downloaded the 64bit driver - links updated.

Also, do you have more than one internal hard drive? If so, then /dev/sdb1 may be /dev/sdc1 or /dev/sdd1 and so on according to the number of internal drives.

[purcell]

I am running F10 64bit so your assumption was correct. I downloaded the files onto the usbkey and then loaded them onto the computer per your instructions and rebooted. It still booted in text format so I logged in and tried the startx cmd. Result was:

(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sun Feb 15 05:33:04 2009
(EE) Unable to locate/open config file
New driver is "nv"
(==) Using default built-in configuration (30 lines)
(EE) open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory
(EE) No devices detected

Fatal server error:
no screens found
giving up.
xinit: No such file or dirrectory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.

Any advice or anything I can do to get past that?

Thanks

Originally Posted by Jake

Demz, why to not use Nvidia drivers from nvidia?

They do work BTW. I use them, and the drivers from RPM fusion appear to be just an easier way to install them, and compiles it for you.

@OP:

If you have a .run file. You can run the file like:

$ cd /media/usbdrivename/
$ sh ./NV<Press tab to complete it for you>

why Jake.

1) sure they may work but with each new kernel update you have to rebuild the nvidia drivers

2) drivers from RPMFusion have bits trimmed from the actual driver i think that dont have the Proprietrary bits in the RPM

[Firewing1]

Originally Posted by Demz

2) drivers from RPMFusion have bits trimmed from the actual driver i think that dont have the Proprietrary bits in the RPM

Nope, we don't remove the proprietary bits (that would make the driver stop working, and also why *nvidia and *fglrx is in rpmfusion-nonfree) but the drivers from RPM Fusion don't overwrite files that came preinstalled with your Fedora installation.

Originally Posted by purcell

<snip>
New driver is "nv"
(==) Using default built-in configuration (30 lines)
(EE) open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory
(EE) No devices detected

<snip>

Any advice or anything I can do to get past that?

Thanks

Update: Shoot! I forgot one package: livna-config-display
Try downloading this package to the USB key and then running the same instructions in my last post again. Don't worry if the kernel-firmware part fails, as we removed that RPM from the key after installing it.

---- Old message:
Weird, it looks like the drivers weren't autoconfigured... Did all of the packages install properly? Please post

rpm -qa | grep nvidia

Either way, you can also try this:

su -
nvidia-config-display disable
nvidia-config-display enable
exit
startx

thanks Stewart i didnt know that, i always thought the proprietary bits were removed