FC4 and NVidia Drivers: Solution

[Mark Bidewell <mark.bidewell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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