On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 07:58:36PM +0100, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am Mi, den 17.11.2004 schrieb Alexandre Cavalcante Alencar um 19:46: > > > I was reading this list and others forums about the nVIDIA binary > > drivers version 1.0-6629 and Fedora Core 3, and tried the presented > > solutions, but none worked to me. > > > > When I go to runlevel 5, the nVIDIA driver loads and it's show the Logo, > > but at this this, I can see a mouse cursor and it hangs, I can move the > > mouse (slowly), but the GDM/KDE/XDM don't show up. > > > > Coping /dev/nvidia* to /etec/udev/devices and changing it's owner to > > root and group to root don't resolve the problem as said (this was done > > with the 6110 version, I think). > > > > I've tried a solution showed by Alexander Dalloz, that patch the nv.c > > file, and it with the above, but not worked too. > > This patch is only needed for the older driver version 6111. > > > Alexandre Cavalcante Alencar > > Which graphics card do you use? There seems to be problems with older > card types like TNT2. You then will have to run the older driver > version. rpm packaged nvidia drivers (6629, 6111, 6106) for FC3 can be found at http://atrpms.net/name/nvidia-graphics/ The drivers have a small buglet still, the /dev entries will vanish after a reboot. Workaround for now: After package installation do cp -a /dev/nvidia* /etc/udev/devices chown root.root /etc/udev/devices/nvidia* (see also: http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/udev/) > In general, if the NVidia driver does not work with your card model, > then you should contact NVidia, because the Red Hat folks can't fix > anything as it is closed source and not under GPL. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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