Re: EVGA GTX 295 not working

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On 04/26/2010 07:27 AM, suvayu ali wrote:
> On 26 April 2010 06:46, badmagic<badmagic@xxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>    
>> Hi all (figured out the problem),
>>
>> I've had trouble installing Fedora for the last few releases. I don't
>> have it installed at the moment so I can't offer much help BUT as I'm
>> certain my prob relates to my EVGA GTX 295 Co-Op Edition graphics card
>> and these are quite common cards, I'm sure the fix is quite widely known.
>>
>> Everything installs/boots okay until I get to the bit where I need to
>> log in. I get the GDM graphical login screen but the mouse and keyboard
>> seem to stop working. If I change to terminal view (Ctrl Alt F2 for
>> memory) I can still type DMESG shows problems with the graphics card -
>> can't remember specifics.
>>
>> I tried changing the xorg.conf to settings I know worked under other
>> distros/BSD/Solaris (using xorg) to no avail.
>>
>> Is this a known problem? Is there a fix? Is there some GRUB switch I can
>> throw in there that'll work - I tried some to no avail.
>>
>>      
> I am not sure but your card is probably not supported by the open
> source nouveau drivers. Have you tried using the proprietary drivers
> packaged by rpmfusion [http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia]? If not you
> could give that a shot. I would go about it like this,
>
> 1. Boot to runlevel 3
> 2. use yum to install rpmfusion free and non-free repo
> 3. now use yum to install the nvidia proprietary drivers
> 4. reboot
>
>    
>> My specs are as follows:
>>
>> ASUS P5Q Deluxe motherboard
>> 4GB Kingston (compatible with mobo) RAM
>> EVGA GTX 295 co-op edition graphics card
>> Corsair HX 1000W (more than enough)
>>
>>      
> Nice rig ;)
>
>    
>> That's about all
>>
>>      
> GL
>
>    
>> Regards,
>> Steve Laurie
>>      
>    
You must also blacklist nouveau in the grub config


There is a complete write up in the above RPMFUSION HOWTO



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