Fedora Users — Re: NVIDIA Again

Kevin Freeman wrote:

On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 16:49 -0500, Jesse Jarzynka wrote:

   Ok, has anyone installed the latest 6629 driver, rebooted, and had
eveything come up fine? I'm curious if this is a Core 3 issue, a kernel
issue, or a 'just me' issue. I'm thinking of moving back to the 6111
driver but I can't install that without the kernel sources correct? I
tried modprobing 'nvidia' but that doesnt change the driver I'm using,
and I still don't have accelerated 3D. Anyone know what's going on here?
I'm real impressed with core3 so far but if I can't have ant apotlight
screensaver what good is it :-P?
Jesse Jarzynka
Cyber Source
http://www.thecybersource.com

Which card do you have?  The 6629 driver does not work on Riva TNT2
cards, but works fine (for me at least) on a GF4 440MX and GF 5200.
Driver 6111 (patched) works fine for all 3 cards listed above.  And
neither driver requires the kernel source to be present.  You _will_
need to read the Release Notes (search for nvidia and udev) to get
everything working smoothly.

What is the output of: lsmod|grep nvidia ?  You should see something
like:
nvidia               3473436  22

If so, you probably forgot to edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf to specify the
binary nvidia driver.

Regards,
Kevin Freeman


I would really like to know how you did this.  I have GF4 440MX and
installed the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1.  Modified the
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.  When I reboot, it gives a message about
reconfigure kernel and hangs.
Any help would be great, I have never had a problem with an nvidia
driver before.  But then that was on a different Linux.

Mike

Here is my xorg.conf file:

# XFree86 4 configuration created by pyxf86config

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "Default Layout"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
        RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
        FontPath     "unix/:7100"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "extmod"
        Load  "fbdevhw"
        Load  "glx"
        Load  "record"
        Load  "freetype"
        Load  "type1"
#       Load  "dri"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
        Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option      "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
        Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
        ModelName    "VE700"
        DisplaySize  340        270
        HorizSync    30.0 - 80.0
        VertRefresh  50.0 - 75.0
        Option      "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard0"
#       Driver      "nv"
        Driver      "nvidia"
        VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
        BoardName   "NVIDIA GeForce 4 (generic)"
EndSection

Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 16 Modes "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600""640x480" EndSubSection EndSection

Section "DRI"
        Group        0
        Mode         0666
EndSection