Boot msg error nvdia driver

Quwee · #1 23rd November 2009, 12:26 AM

I am using Fedora 11 64 bit with GNOME.
I recently(2 months ago) inserted an EVGA NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT into the PCI-E slot on my motherboard.
I was able to install NVIDIA drivers for it by following some instructions I found online. I think it required me to the use an akmod command.

Once I had the driver I was able to enable desktop effects which I could not do before.
The graphics card seems to work well.
I installed the game "urban terror" to test its capabilities and when it the program is set to the maximum setting the fps varies but I frequently reach the program's ceiling which is 125.

The reason I am posting this is because even though the GFX adapter is working I still get an error every single time I turn on the computer.

At the login screen there are 2 icons at the lower right: an accessibility icon and a boot message icon.
When I click the boot message icon there appears to be a log of the system startup process and everything seems to be fine except for a line that says:

Enabling the Nvidia driver: /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions:line513:1219 segmentation fault "$@" failed

What should I do?

Edit:
Here is the file the error is referring to.

Edit: I tried to take a screen shot of the error while at the login screen but when I pressed the Print Screen key all that happened was I saw those small blue orbs spin around the mouse pointer in a circle(this usually shows that the computer is loading something).

I pressed the key a number of times.

Is it possible that the screenshot key worked and the images are located somewhere on my hard drive?

Quwee · #2 25th November 2009, 04:41 AM

If I recall correctly I installed the drivers before I inserted the graphics adapter into the motherboard slot. This allowed me to have desktop effects enabled even before I inserted the card.

CamoAnimal · #3 25th November 2009, 05:15 AM

I am no programmer, but it looks to me that the "$@" is a reference to an error in the driver during boot-up. If the driver seems to be running fine I would just ignore it. Based on what your saying the driver is functioning fine once X server is up. So, unless it is actually causing your problems then I would just leave it be; however, if it is bothering you or causing problems then you might try reinstalling kmod...

Quwee · #4 1st December 2009, 12:56 AM

Here are the NVIDIA related items I found in my package manager:

Could my problem be caused by redundant packages?

Is it normal to have both akmod and kmod packages?

GoinEasy9 · #5 1st December 2009, 01:40 AM

akmod packages build kmod packages.
Do you have 3 kernels in your grub? If so, there is a kmod for each kernel that you installed it to.

Quwee · #6 1st December 2009, 03:03 AM

Yes, I have three kernels in my grub.

Maybe It is something to do with the fact that I have both the NVIDIA proprietary driver and the nouveau driver.

GoinEasy9 · #7 1st December 2009, 03:14 AM

You can check if installing the akmod/kmod automatically blacklisted the nouveau driver by checking to see if there is a file in /etc/modprobe.d called nouveau-blacklist.conf. What is also needed is the nouveau.modeset=0 option appended to the end of the kernel line in grub.conf on your most recent kernel.
I have never come up with the error your seeing though, so I can't help diagnose what went wrong for you.

Quwee · #8 1st December 2009, 04:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GoinEasy9

You can check if installing the akmod/kmod automatically blacklisted the nouveau driver by checking to see if there is a file in /etc/modprobe.d called nouveau-blacklist.conf. What is also needed is the nouveau.modeset=0 option appended to the end of the kernel line in grub.conf on your most recent kernel.
I have never come up with the error your seeing though, so I can't help diagnose what went wrong for you.

I found a file called blacklist-nouveau.conf (not nouveau-blacklist.conf) in /etc/modprobe.d.

I looked in the grub.conf file and there was no mention of nouveau.

I vaguely recall a how-to guide for NVIDIA setup that said that it may be necessary to blacklist nouveau but my gfx card seems to work ok without having done that.

GoinEasy9 · #9 1st December 2009, 05:22 AM

Sorry I was a bit dyslexic, it is blacklist-nouveau. My setup requires the nouveau.modeset=0 line to work properly. You might want to go over the first post in Leigh's thread here: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=204752 and see if any of his 4 steps will make the error message go away. I see that he has replaced the nouveau.modeset=0 line with rdblacklist=nouveau. If your graphics are working, as was suggested in post #3, maybe the only way to get rid of the error is to re-install the drivers, as per Leigh's instructions.

Quwee · #10 3rd December 2009, 02:25 AM

Another problem I have that may be related:

When I go into the system preferences control center(similar to the windows control panel) I am able to access several graphics related settings such as:
Appearance
Desktop Effects
Livna Display Configuration
Display

However, there are two display icons. I can open and operate the upper one but when I click the lower one nothing happens.

Here is a picture:

Does anyone else have this issue?

Quwee · #11 7th January 2010, 10:07 PM

Today I replaced the monitor with a different one and I checked the error to see if it changed.

It did. Instead of 513:1219 it said 513:1140.

I thought that this might be the result of changing the monitor but then when I rebooted the machine it said 513:1203.

I rebooted again and it said 513:1194.

The number seems to change every time the system loads but not when I log out or log in.

JEO · #12 7th January 2010, 10:43 PM

I have seen boot message errors with the nvidia driver also. The errors went away after I created an updated /etc/X11/xorg.conf by running the nvidia-settings as root and saving the file. Have you tried this?

Quwee · #13 8th January 2010, 02:54 AM

I am currently looking into the "nvidia-" family of commands which includes:

nvidia-bug-report.sh
nvidia-settings
nvidia-xconfig
nvidia-config-display
nvidia-smi

nvidia-smi is none of my concern since it is for special Nvidia Tesla GPUs which I do not have.
nvidia-bug-report.sh created a log file which can be viewed here.

When I type:
nvidia-config-display
the terminal displays:

Quote:

Segmentation fault

I think this is related to the icon in the control center that isn't working.

nvidia-settings displays a window called NVIDIA X Server Settings where I can adjust settings of the video card. I don't think I need to make adjustments here.

nvidia-xconfig gives the response:

Quote:

Using X configuration file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf".
Backed up file '/etc/X11/xorg.conf' as '/etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup'
New X configuration file written to '/etc/X11/xorg.conf'

I think I just did what JEO said to do so now I will restart and see if the error is still there.

edit: It is still there. Now I will follow leigh123linux's instructions.

leigh123linux · #14 8th January 2010, 03:02 AM

To fix both issues.

Code:

su
rm -f /etc/X11/xorg.conf*
nvidia-config-display disable
nvidia-config-display enable

reboot

Use of

Code:

nvidia-settings
 nvidia-xconfig

can break nvidia-config-display ( part of the kmod-nvidia auto-setup ) and the fedora display tools.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=538411

Quwee · #15 8th January 2010, 04:47 AM

I followed leigh123linux's instructions and when I rebooted I noticed that the boot error message is no longer displayed at the login screen.

The boot message error problem is solved now and I am pleased that it was so easy to solve but the other problem shown in the most recent picture I posted(nothing happens when I click the display icon) is still there.