Anyone have the Nvidia driver working in 2.6.11-1.14_FC3?

Neal Wilkinson forums.lists at comcast.net
Wed Apr 13 19:08:02 UTC 2005


Marc Schwartz wrote:

>Neal Wilkinson wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Ok...here we go.
>>I have version NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1.run installed and running
>>in the 770 kernel. I've tried to install 
>>NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7174-pkg1.run in 2.6.10-1.741_FC3 and the following
>>happens.
>>
>>I end the session and go to a console login.
>>login as root
>>cd /home/neal (where the file is)
>>sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7174-pkg1.run
>>message that the same version is installed, would I like to remove it
>>and install again. I answer yes.
>>then says it must download a kernel interface and says no matching one
>>was found
>>then it builds the kernel module and says its done
>>then it uninstalls the driver and re-installs it
>>then says its done please go update xorg.conf etc. if needed
>>then when I reboot I get an error when it should load the driver which
>>says nvidia.ko not found and it loads a generic driver.
>>
>>Does this help? Thanks!
>>
>>Neal
>>    
>>
>
>Sorry for jumping in a bit late here, but all initial steps sound proper
>and the last problem sounds like the udev issue which has been
>referenced previously.
>
>Review the steps on this page:
>
>http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/udev/
>
>Scroll down to the nVidia section towards the bottom of the page and
>follow the two steps there. That should solve the re-boot problem. I
>don't remember, but you may have to redo the nVidia installer one last
>time after the above steps.
>
>Then the only other time you would need to redo the nVidia installer is
>if you boot a new/different kernel.
>
>I have the 7174 driver (using the nVidia installer) running just fine
>with the latest 2.6.11-1.14_FC3 kernel.
>
>HTH,
>
>Marc Schwartz
>
>  
>
I have the current udev installed so it should be ok, right?

Installed Packages
Name   : udev
Arch   : i386
Version: 039
Release: 10.FC3.7
Size   : 1.3 M
Repo   : installed
Summary: A userspace implementation of devfs

reference to nvidia on that page look like in relation to an older 
version. Thanks.




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