Re: nvidia drivers from freshrpms.net

[Fernando Lozano <fernando@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Found that need to install kenel-xen-devel so the nvidia kernel module 
can be build and loaded. Now when I start X I get a blak screen and a 
complain that the GLX extension cannot be loaded, but it looks like I'm 
loading the correct one from nvidia. Any ideas?


[]s, Fernando Lozano

> I have a nVidia GEForce MX 440 card but never bothered with OpenGL 
> applications before. But I just installed FC6 and heard all rumors 
> about compiz, so I decided to give it a try.
>
> I understand I need the nVidia proprietary drivers for compiz to work 
> with my card, so I installed the package from Freshrpms.net. But it 
> looks like the kernel refuses to load the drivers. At least I say a 
> message saying so during boot and could not start X. I had to 
> reconfigure X to use the Xorg open source driver (nv) instead of the 
> proprietary one (nvidia) but I could not find in any log that message.
>
> I read the docs from nVidia web site but had no success. What could be 
> preventing the driver to load? Maybe SELinux?
>
> []s, Fernando Lozano