NVidia driver on FC1 (tech prob not idiological)

[Clint Harshaw]

Gary Stainburn wrote:
> Hi folks.
> 
> I've just tried to install the NVidia drivers onto my laptop without any 
> success.  I downloaded the file from the NVidia site and ran
> 
> sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run
> 
> This ran fine, said it couldn't find the correct kernel interface, so it built 
> one, and then finished without errors.
> 
> I then made the appropriate changes to the XF86Config and ran startx.
> 
> Unfortunately it didn't work. All I got was my screen staying in text mode 
> with the screen having a black background with white block characters all 
> over it.  <Alt>+<Ctrl>+<Del> reboots the pc fine.  I've rebooted, 
> re-installed and re-checked everything but I can't see what the problem is.
> 
> Can anyone help?
> 
> I've put up all the files I can think of here:
> 
> http://www.stainburn.com/XF86Config.orig	-- original config
> http://www.stainburn.com/XF86Config		-- amended for NVidia
> http://www.stainburn.com/XF86Config.diff	-- diff of the 2
> 
> http://www.stainburn.com/XFree86.0.log		-- X startup log
> 

These instructions are the ones I use to install the driver on my FC1 
machines. See if this helps:

CC="gcc32" sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run --add-this-kernel

CC="gcc32" sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1-custom.run

rpm -e --nodeps XFree86-Mesa-libGL

It's been a good while since I did the installation, so there may have 
been some changes that make these instructions obsolete.

Clint
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Clint Harshaw  <clint at penguinsolutions.org>