Re: errors on trying to install latest nvidia driver with F12

On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 16:47 +0000, N James Bridge wrote:
On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 07:27 -0700, Craig White wrote:
On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 14:11 +0000, N James Bridge wrote:
I am hoping someone may be able to throw some light on this.

I had (and now have restored) F12 (x86_64) working with the nouveau
driver. I have been watching for the nvidia drivers to make it into the
RPMfusion repo and they have now done so and last night I installed the
173 legacy driver (as required for my ancient graphics card!) Result -
plymouth intro followed by black screen. I rebooted into level 3 and
uninstalled the nvidia drivers and tried again - same result. Following
advice I got here previously, I rebooted to level 3, deleted xorg.conf
and then ran startx, which worked. However, on closing, I got a string
of error messages and then on booting up, the black screen again.

Finally, I repeated the above and from the gui (GNOME) made a new user.
Since then things have worked normally. Why? It seems more like black
magic than IT.

I have attached the error log and the default xorg.conf file, for expert
perusal. It doesn't mean a whole lot to me.

thanks in advance for any comments
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the error log doesn't seem to track with the xorg.conf file you
enclosed.

the xorg.conf called for 'nv' but the error log tried to use the
proprietary nvidia driver.

What is it that you want to do and perhaps we can figure out the best
course of action

Craig
Ultimately, I want to get the nvidia driver installed, rather than
nouveau. (I have a weakness for desktop effects!) I have had nvidia
drivers working consistently up to F12, without fuss. Previously I
installed fedora N (N=6-11) and then set up the repos, downloaded the
nvidia drivers from RPMfusion or its predecessor and just installed
them. No problems. Now it doesn't work.

The xorg.conf file is what was generated automatically after I deleted
the existing one and after uninstalling the nvidia driver (and its
metapackage, so it is not being pulled back in). The error log generated
was the same for 4 tries - I used diff to check them and they only
differed in the times at which they were written. The first one was
different; then I had the nvidia drivers installed, but the end result
was the same.

There have now been a couple of replies about nouveau grabbing the
graphics card and ways of stopping this. Another method is described on
this page: http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-nvidia.html. I
had expected that installation from the rpm package would take care of
the problem. It is a considerable hurdle for an average user.
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I'm going to stay out of the political discussion and suggest that you
do the following...

- append 'nomodesetting' to your kernel boot...
ie, the lines in /boot/grub/grub.conf that go...

title Fedora (2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686 ro
root=UUID=7734afd9-2d2e-43fc-baa2-b8ea07cc98f7 rhgb quiet
SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 KEYTABLE=us nomodesetting
initrd /initramfs-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686.img
savedefault
boot

(watch the line wraps...)

move your xorg.conf out of the way...

mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf-disabled

install the nvidia packages per the instructions you were following and
then reboot

I would expect it to work

Craig




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