F11: akmod-nvidia doesn't work

[dedded]

I have:
AMD Phenom 9650 Quad-Core Processor
nVidia GeForce 9500 GT graphics card
dual monitors

I installed F11 from the DVD iso. The nouveau driver seemed to work and I could get both monitors working with xrandr.

Then I tried to install the nvidia drivers. I installed akmod-nvidia.

They didn't work. I got this in my /var/log/Xorg.0.log:

(II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
(II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers//nvidia_drv.so
(II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: X.Org Video Driver
(EE) NVIDIA: Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module. Please check your
(EE) NVIDIA: system's kernel log for additional error messages.
(II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
(II) Unloading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers//nvidia_drv.so
(EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module-specific error, 0)
(EE) No drivers available.

So I searched the boards. Various things I tried to no avail:

- Include video ram as a kernel option: vmalloc=512MB

- Blacklist the nouveau driver:

Add "blacklist nouveau" to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

Then create new initrd:

mv /boot/initrd-$(uname -r).img /boot/initrd-$(uname -r)-nouveau.img
mkinitrd /boot/initrd-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)

- Make sure kernel-devel and dkms are installed, reinstall akmod-nvidia.

- Add this to /etc/modprobe.d/dist.conf:
alias /dev/nvidia* nvidia

But none of that worked either.

[dedded]

Finally, I removed akmod-nvidia and installed kmod-nvidia instead.

This worked. I removed all the other changes I had made, and rebooted. Still worked.

So something seems amiss with akmod-nvidia.

(Posting this as a reply since it contains a solution of sorts. If others search like me, they might only search for threads with 1 or more replies.)

[GCFreak]

You need to install kernel-devel for akmod-nvidia to work like it should, it's not considered a dependency for akmod-nvidia for some reason

[dedded]

You need to install kernel-devel for akmod-nvidia to work like it should, it's not considered a dependency for akmod-nvidia for some reason

The kernel-devel module was installed. Also, I then installed dkms and removed and then reinstalled akmod-nvidia.

It didn't work.

[dedded]

I noticed that kmod-nvidia version 185.18.14 was released (and tried it and it seems to work fine), so I decided to give akmod-nvidia another go.

Version 185.18.14 of akmod-nvidia doesn't work for me either (see original post). But I noticed this segfault during the installation:

================================================== ==============================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
================================================== ==============================
Installing:
akmod-nvidia x86_64 185.18.14-1.fc11 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates 5.6 M
Installing for dependencies:
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia x86_64 185.18.14-2.fc11 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates 3.1 M
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs
x86_64 185.18.14-2.fc11 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates 7.6 M

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

Total download size: 16 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
(1/3): akmod-nvidia-185.18.14-1.fc11.x86_64.rpm | 5.6 MB 00:47
(2/3): xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-185.18.14-2.fc11.x86_64.rpm | 3.1 MB 00:24
(3/3): xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-185.18.14-2.fc11.x86_64. | 7.6 MB 01:05
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total 121 kB/s | 16 MB 02:17
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Installing : akmod-nvidia 1/3
Installing : xorg-x11-drv-nvidia 2/3
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.S7lEIT: line 9: 2954 Segmentation fault /usr/sbin/nvidia-config-display enable &>/dev/null
Installing : xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs 3/3

Installed:
akmod-nvidia.x86_64 0:185.18.14-1.fc11

Dependency Installed:
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.x86_64 0:185.18.14-2.fc11
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.x86_64 0:185.18.14-2.fc11

Complete!

Any ideas?