Re: Problems after installing nvidia kmod

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On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:32:13 -0700
Paolo Galtieri <pgaltieri@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Yesterday I installed F12 on one of my systems.  The install and
> update went fine and everything was running fine.  Since I have an
> Nvidia cras in my system I thought I would install the nvidia driver
> from the rpmfusion repo. Here is my Nvidia card info:
> 
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8500 GT
> (rev a1)
> 
> I installed the following packages, ran nvidia-xconfig and rebooted:
> 
> nvidia-xconfig-1.0-1.fc12.x86_64
> nvidia-settings-1.0-3.2.fc12.x86_64
> livna-config-display-0.0.23-1.fc11.noarch
> kmod-nvidia-2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64-190.42-1.fc12.9.x86_64
> kmod-nvidia-190.42-1.fc12.9.x86_64
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-190.42-5.fc12.x86_64
> 
> When the system came up I did not get a login prompt, just a black
> screen with the cursor blinking in the upper left.  I did a
> Ctrl-Alt-F2 to get to a console window and did an init 3 followed by
> an init 5 to restart the server.  This is what I got:
> 
> Applying Intel CPU microcode update: Starting monitoring for VG
> vg_jackstraw:   2 logical volume(s) in volume group "vg_jackstraw"
> monitored [  OK  ]
> Checking for module nvidia.ko:                             [  OK  ]
> Enabling the nvidia driver: /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions: line 520:
> 3759 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) "$@"
>                                                            [FAILED]

Yeah, there are manual steps now needed. ;( 

Please take a look at: 
http://fedorasolved.org/video-solutions/nvidia-yum-kmod/

You basically have to rebuild your initramfs to blacklist the free
driver, and run a selinux command to allow the nvidia driver to work
with selinux enabled. 

kevin

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