FC4 and NVidia Drivers: Solution

In case anyone else runs into this. The problem appears to be a conflict with selinux. If you install the drivers with selinux disabled (I used selinux=0 at boot time), everything will work fine even when selinux is reenabled.

Mark Bidewell

Mark Bidewell wrote:

Ben Steeves wrote:

On 6/13/05, Mark Bidewell <mark.bidewell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have downloaded and installed FC4. However the latest NVidia graphics
drivers cause X segmentation faults. I'm guessing the problem might be
gcc4. Has anyone else encountered this problem?

Just to add a datapoint -- I just finished a fresh install of FC4
(typing this message on it, actually) and installed the NVidia drivers
(7664), and they work fine (so far).  When are you getting these
segfaults?

I got them when running glxgears (but this was when I switched back to the nv driver). XWindows would normally come up as a blank screen (although rhgb would work normally). I tried changing to a low resolution (800x600 instead of 1280x1024) in case that was the problem, but nothing changed. The other segfault was when I toook the XServer down (ctrl+alt+bksp) due to the blank screen.

Mark Bidewell