Installing nVidia Driver(How to?)

Areal Person · #1 2nd August 2012, 08:29 PM

Can someone point me to the nVidia install instructions for F17 ?

Thanks,
-Areal

vallimar · #2 2nd August 2012, 08:33 PM

Did you even try to look?

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=280750

Adunaic · #3 2nd August 2012, 08:33 PM

Take a look in the Guides & Solutions forum. They are right there, third one down from the top.

I was going to post the link to the actual thread but instead, please have a look at this link first: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=282819

Also, please use the default text size in your posts.

Areal Person · #4 2nd August 2012, 08:56 PM

@ vallimar

Yes I did, there were 10 pages of links for that
and several links are ambiguous. There different everywhere !

The first two replies to this post are even different.
And even nVidia has instructions (That are poor)

Yours
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=280750

Someone else
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=282819

You'r not as smart as you think you are.

Adunaic · #5 2nd August 2012, 10:17 PM

I'm not sure what you mean. Of course the first two replies are different, you have asked a simple question which is covered very extensivley on the forum, as such I pointed you to a link explaining about asking questions.

Have you now managed to get the driver installed now?

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Okay, its been a while since I have needed to use the search function. It's crap and does not give you a good answer. Sorry for being harsh but most people that post question do not bother to search first. You did, good for you, I had not realised it would not return a good answer for such a simple question.

rgammon51 · #6 2nd August 2012, 11:36 PM

I have tried and tried, using these guides as a lamppost to ensure that I did it correctly. At best, the drivers were stable for a week, at worst things went from bad to worse inside of an hour

This is with a GTX480, on board temps are running less than 75C under the max load that I put on the board and without using 100% fans.

F17 and Ubuntu 12.04 display the SAME symptoms. A jerky cursor that sometimes freezes for minutes at a time, and keyboard input that does not display on screen for seconds to minutes. Changing focus is a nightmare. Screen corruption occurs.

These symptoms are NOT a problem with the nouveau driver, but nouveau treats the card as merely a video card when it is so much more in running task for BOINC projects

Adunaic · #7 3rd August 2012, 09:59 AM

@rgammon51: If you are having issues, reply to the installation guides asking for help or start a new thread asking for help.

rgammon51 · #8 3rd August 2012, 10:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Adunaic

@rgammon51: If you are having issues, reply to the installation guides asking for help or start a new thread asking for help.

This issue does not appear to be with installation of the driver. I can repeat the proces over and over again with the same result,. a jerky unresponsive cursor, a keyboard that freezes, and an unresponsivce desktop. NONE OF THESE SYMPTOMS APPEAR WITH THE NOUVEAU DRIVER!!!! These symptoms start with a difficult login and get worse from there. Nothing else is running, only a gedit box, or Firefox that i am using here. I have checked Top (when I could get Terminal to come up and when I could type in Terminal) and the CPU is running at less than 10%

Installation of the driver is not the issue, I can do that fine. As a matter of fact, I will attempt the NVIDIA installation on this fresh install of F17 with all updates applied as soon as I finish this message.

I repeat, the process outlined here in FedoraForums DOES WORK. The driver does get installed. The driver does not work. I am fairly certain that the card is ok, as I have used the card successfully before to process GPUGrid and Milkyway workunits that use the card to complete the work.

Adunaic · #9 3rd August 2012, 01:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rgammon51

This issue does not appear to be with installation of the driver. I can repeat the proces over and over again with the same result,. a jerky unresponsive cursor, a keyboard that freezes, and an unresponsivce desktop. NONE OF THESE SYMPTOMS APPEAR WITH THE NOUVEAU DRIVER!!!! These symptoms start with a difficult login and get worse from there. Nothing else is running, only a gedit box, or Firefox that i am using here. I have checked Top (when I could get Terminal to come up and when I could type in Terminal) and the CPU is running at less than 10%

Installation of the driver is not the issue, I can do that fine. As a matter of fact, I will attempt the NVIDIA installation on this fresh install of F17 with all updates applied as soon as I finish this message.

I repeat, the process outlined here in FedoraForums DOES WORK. The driver does get installed. The driver does not work. I am fairly certain that the card is ok, as I have used the card successfully before to process GPUGrid and Milkyway workunits that use the card to complete the work.

If you think the driver is fine, have you tried it with windows on (if that is an option) otherwise it sounds like their is a hardware fault.

rgammon51 · #10 3rd August 2012, 02:46 PM

Microsoft Windows is BANNED FOR LIFE from this computer and all others I own. PERIOD There will be no discussion tolerated on these lines.

Now, all is well in Ubuntu 32bit with Nvidia 32bit drivers v295.59. Access to the GPU is alive and workunits are being processed successfully in BOINC. By success, I mean that the workunits are being validated properly and credits granted. None of the artifacts I saw in 64bit Ubuntu 12.04 and Fedora 16 and 17 are present.

Yes, this could be a fault in the CPU, the main memory, the PCI bus, the motherboard, etc. However with current succes in 32bit mode I will stick here. If I get tired of Ubuntu and I have been on it for 8 months now, then back to F17 32bit onscreen Fonts in Ubuntu look better for apps like BOINC