kmod-nvidia vs akmod-nvidia

[LinuxDanP]

Yup. Nouveau was already blacklisted, and I just rebuilt initrd. I then ran startx again, and got another black screen. When I installed the nvidia driver I edited xorg.conf to use it.

[Hlingler]

Try upgrading to the Beta driver (if you have not already done so): http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpo...0&postcount=67

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[LinuxDanP]

Ok, I have some new evidence. I checked out /var/log/Xorg.0.log, and the Nvidia driver fails to recognize the LCD screen. It says:

NVIDIA(GPU-0): No display devices connected: falling back to: CRT-0
NVIDIA(GPU-0): Unable to read EDID for display device CRT-0

So apparently I have to specify that I have an LCD monitor. That would be set in xorg.conf, right?

[Hlingler]

Just about out of ideas here, Dan. Please attach current file in full: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
Might as well also attach current xorg.conf.

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[bob]

(Jumping in just for a second)
That used to be handled in "system-config-display". Just gave it a try and because I'm running an active Nvidia, it's not available - borks on the terminal. You might give it a try though. I had an instance many versions back where Fedora thought my LCD was a CRT.

[LinuxDanP]

Thanks for the help! I played around a bit today, and now I have a working GNOME desktop. Now I just need to switch to KDE... here's what I did today. On nVidia's website, they have a list of all the options that can be thrown into xorg.conf. Two of those deal with specifying monitor types. I used:

Option "Connected Monitor" "DFP"

to specify monitor type. I also noticed in my /var/log/Xorg.0.log that the nVidia driver was complaining about not being able to connect to the ACPI Event Daemon. I then installed it (acpid) by following Hlinger's instructions here. This didn't solve my problem, but the nVidia driver did stop complaining about ACPI Events. Also, I'm in the process of turning this computer into a multiseat setup, so I have two graphics boards, monitors, etc. When I installed the OS, I had X automatically generate an xorg.conf. It recognized both graphics boards and monitors, but only generated one screen setup. Today I edited it to add in the extra screen. I then added the new screen to the ServerLayout section. My server layout now looks like:

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
# I added Screen1-didn't touch anything else
Screen 1 "Screen1" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
Option "DontZap" "false"
EndSection

After this edit, when I run startx GNOME comes up just fine. ( I did install XFCE, but I had installed GNOME earlier. Not sure why the XFCE install didn't reconfigure the desktop started with startx.)

I have attached Xorg.0.log(I had to rename it to Xorg.0.log.txt) and xorg.conf,

Thank you very much to everyone who has helped me on this problem.