Re: EVGA GTX 295 not working

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On Friday 30 April 2010 05:49 AM, badmagic wrote:
> On 27/04/2010 2:00 AM, Michael Miles wrote:
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
> Hi all,
>
> Still no success on the graphics. I get the graphical screen come up
> with the word
> Fedora and 1 dot under the F (are the number of dots some kind of
> indication of
> progress? Not sure but I thoough it might be a clue).
>
> at this point, the mouse still works and the keyboard still has power
> but it's as though the
> keyboard doesn't work. Not even the caps lock, number lock etc. lights
> change
> when I press the associated buttons. Needless to say Ctrl-Alt-F2 doesn't
> work.
>
> I am still trying to do what has already been suggested but in the mean
> time, if someone
> could take a look at my dmesg (attached), I'd appreciate it.
>

I see that you are booting from the KDE LiveCD. So when you boot, it 
uses the nouveau driver. But wasn't that the problem in the first place?

You can try a text install and then boot to runlevel 3 and edit 
grub.conf to include the blacklist nouveau option and install the 
rpmfusion repo and the proprietary NVidia drivers?

A few things of note here,
1. If you need custom partitioning, you will have to boot with a LiveCD 
(with a supported graphics driver, so maybe an older version or use the 
mesa driver or maybe any text based livecd) and partition according to 
your needs)
2. Once you have everything up and running don't forget to make sure 
firstboot is run (if it doesn't run by itself)
3. I am assuming the LiveCD can install in text mode (my memory is hazy 
about this)

> Also, while I was in runlevel 3, I created an xorg.conf.new file and
> have also attached that.
> Perhaps it can give some clues as to what's going on.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve Laurie
>

GL

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