On 02/17/2010 06:03 PM, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 13:28 -0500, Gary Waters wrote: >> On 02/17/2010 12:42 PM, Matthew Saltzman wrote: >>> 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. >> >> >> I just tried the installation method here: >> >> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=234595 >> >> It made no difference. I still get the error messages in the orange >> triangle at the login screen >> >> Step 13 for this method is as follows: >> >> 13. $ cd /etc/X11&& vi xorg.conf >> Add the following lines to the "Files" section: >> ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia" >> ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers" >> ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules" >> >> Would I need to modify anything there before uninstalling the nvidia and >> proceeding with Kmod? I assume this is the correct procedure for kmod: >> >> http://fedorasolved.org/video-solutions/nvidia-yum-kmod > > That looks correct, except that it looks like it misses blacklisting the > nouveau module at boot. > > I think you should be able to just delete xorg.conf before installing. > Fedora currently doesn't use it for the drivers it distributes, so the > kmod-nvidia stuff should know to create it. Fedorasolved lists a HOWTO > to make sure you've deleted everything from the nvidia run package. One > test is to make sure you can boot and get graphics from the nouveau > driver again. > > If you have an older card, be sure to get the right version of the > driver package. Ok.... I reinstalled the nvidia driver again...the run installation. On a whim I omitted ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers" in xorg.conf and everything fell perfectly into place. No more error messages. Thanks for your help! I appreciate it.! Gary -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
