On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 09:48 -0500, Gary Waters wrote:
> Greetings from newbieland,
>
> I tend to fall behind and upgrade Fedora every 2-3 versions down the
> line. I just installed F12, did some research on installing the nvida
> drivers. I have uninstalled nouveau and kmod-nvidia is also not
> installed. The proprietary nvidia driver appeared to install without any
> diffulties and appears to be working in system/preferences/nvidia
> x-server settings; however, I get the following bootup error messages:
>
> checking for module nvidia.ko in fc12: failed
> nvidia.ko for kernel 2.6.31.12-174.2.19.fc12x86_64 was not found
> the nvidia driver will not be enabled until one is found
>
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I've done a lot of googling and
> experimenting. Could this have something to do with xorg.conf? I have
> been reading so many different "solutions" that I'm beginning to feel
> vapourlocked and would rather get advice here before I screw things up more.
My advice would be to remove the nvidia-packaged drivers and install
kmod-nvidia from rpmfusion. That's worked reliably for me with recent
versions. Also added "rdblacklist=nouveau" to the kernel line
in /etc/grub/conf.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Gary
>
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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