On 4/21/06, Lonni J Friedman <netllama@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 4/19/06, Wong Kwok-hon <kwokhon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 4/20/06, Paul Lemmons <paul.lemmons@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Thanks, It has been a while since I had installed the drivers. Fortunately > > > I still had the original installer on a thumb drive. I ran it with > > > "--uninstall". It complained a little but did succeed. I rebooted and sure > > > enough, all I got was a login prompt; No GUI. I yum installed the > > > kernel-module-nvidia... package and rebooted again, just for fun, and > > > everything came up. > > > > > > Thank you all for your assistance! > > > > > > > > > On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 10:54 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote: > > > Use the --uninstall option. > > > > > > On 4/19/06, Paul Lemmons <Paul.Lemmons@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Ok... this was a scary article... > > > > > > > > It does lead to another question though. I do have the drivers from the > > > > vendor installed. Do I need to uninstall them before I install the livna > > > > version? If so, how? > > > > > > > > As I tried yesterday, the Nvidia driver download from Nvidia 8756 putt > > into a path /usr/X11R6/lib which is wrong and X11 in Fedora Core 5 is > > renamed which is /usr/lib/xorg/modules and some path changed. So If u > > install the Nvidia driver from Nvidia site which is faster than livna > > but need to put it into right path by manual or making a symbolic link > > to it. I have tried and it also work... > > None of the symlinks are neccesary. See: > http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=68681 > I think you haven't tried comply the kernel module before. I build a kernel module my self before I used lvina. And I found that X still not found the modules even I turned off the selinux option as u quoted. The drivers putted in to a wrong place which is still X11R6. And also the thread said : chcon -t texrel_shlib_t /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so chcon -t texrel_shlib_t /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so.1.0.8756 For 64 bit (x86_64) installations, please run the following commands: chcon -t texrel_shlib_t /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so chcon -t texrel_shlib_t /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so.1.0.8756 Which the modules actually are not in /usr/lib/xorg/modules/ and in /usr/lib/X11R6/modules/ So symlink is need to redirect to the files back to /usr/lib/xorg/modules/ Wong Kwok Hon
