On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 15:08 -0400, Neal Wilkinson wrote: > Marc Schwartz wrote: > > >Neal Wilkinson wrote: > > > > > > > >>Ok...here we go. > >>I have version NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1.run installed and running > >>in the 770 kernel. I've tried to install > >>NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7174-pkg1.run in 2.6.10-1.741_FC3 and the following > >>happens. > >> > >>I end the session and go to a console login. > >>login as root > >>cd /home/neal (where the file is) > >>sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7174-pkg1.run > >>message that the same version is installed, would I like to remove it > >>and install again. I answer yes. > >>then says it must download a kernel interface and says no matching one > >>was found > >>then it builds the kernel module and says its done > >>then it uninstalls the driver and re-installs it > >>then says its done please go update xorg.conf etc. if needed > >>then when I reboot I get an error when it should load the driver which > >>says nvidia.ko not found and it loads a generic driver. > >> > >>Does this help? Thanks! > >> > >>Neal > >> > >> > > > >Sorry for jumping in a bit late here, but all initial steps sound proper > >and the last problem sounds like the udev issue which has been > >referenced previously. > > > >Review the steps on this page: > > > >http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/udev/ > > > >Scroll down to the nVidia section towards the bottom of the page and > >follow the two steps there. That should solve the re-boot problem. I > >don't remember, but you may have to redo the nVidia installer one last > >time after the above steps. > > > >Then the only other time you would need to redo the nVidia installer is > >if you boot a new/different kernel. > > > >I have the 7174 driver (using the nVidia installer) running just fine > >with the latest 2.6.11-1.14_FC3 kernel. > > > >HTH, > > > >Marc Schwartz > > > > > > > I have the current udev installed so it should be ok, right? > > Installed Packages > Name : udev > Arch : i386 > Version: 039 > Release: 10.FC3.7 > Size : 1.3 M > Repo : installed > Summary: A userspace implementation of devfs > > reference to nvidia on that page look like in relation to an older > version. Thanks. Neal, One would think so. I made that change some time ago and don't recall which version I had at the time. I have: $ rpm -q udev udev-039-10.FC3.7 The changelog for the above shows: $ rpm -q --changelog udev * Tue Mar 08 2005 Harald Hoyer <harald@xxxxxxxxxx> - 039-10.FC3.7 - renamed dvb to dvb0 - fixed #150533 - set dri permissions to 0666 which does not seem to fully address the issue referenced on the aforementioned web page. #150533 is a scsi issue. I guess that I would try it and see what happens. Since you previously had the nVidia driver working, I presume that you had already made the requisite changes to xorg.conf, so that should not be an issue. One thing to check. Can you run X with the nVidia driver right after using the nVidia installer? If so, and the problem only occurs after a re-boot that reinforces the udev issue as the source of the problem. HTH, Marc
