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

[Neal Wilkinson]

Marc Schwartz wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 19:53 -0400, Neal Wilkinson wrote:
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>>Marc Schwartz wrote:
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>>>Neal,
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>>>A possibly dumb question, but as they say the only stupid question is
>>>the one that goes unasked.
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>>>When you tried to install the 7174 driver as above the first time "for
>>>the 2.6.10-1.741_FC3 kernel", had you actually booted that kernel, or
>>>were you still running the 770 kernel?
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>>>This sounds like you were still running the 770 kernel and trying to
>>>install the nVidia driver for the other kernel. That won't work.
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>>>You need to be running the kernel that you want to install the driver
>>>for at the time. This is why you won't be able to use the nVidia driver
>>>if you boot a new or different kernel relative to the last time you used
>>>the nVidia installer.
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>>>The one inconsistency here is that usually when this situation occurs, X
>>>won't run at all and you are left at a text console login prompt after
>>>some initial error messages and prompts about wanting to diagnose X
>>>problems and logs, etc.
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>>>I don't know if the Livna RPMS overcome this problem, but that may be a
>>>possibility. Someone else here may know.
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>>>BTW, for the latest kernel, the nvidia.ko file is in:
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>>>/lib/modules/2.6.11-1.14_FC3/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko
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>>>Marc
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>>Nope, I wasn't running 770. I did go back to 770 to check and see if it 
>>worked there which it did but then I went back to the new one. I also 
>>noticed the location was 
>>/lib/modules/2.6.11-1.14_FC3/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko/  vs 
>>lib/modules/2.6.11-1.14_FC3/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia/nvidia.ko on 
>>770. That is why I changed it just to see if it would help. When it 
>>booted directly to the console login I'm guessing it couldn't find 
>>anything but I don't know why it then worked after installing it again. 
>>I'm still very linux challenged so I could miss something obvious I'm 
>>guessing. Thanks again.
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>OK, your sentence:
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>"When it booted directly to the console login I'm guessing it couldn't
>find anything but I don't know why it then worked after installing it
>again."
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>is consistent with the behavior associated with the udev issue that I
>referenced earlier.
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>Have you run the two steps that are on the udev web page
>(http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/udev/)?
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>If not, go ahead and run them as 'root' in a console:
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>cp -a /dev/nvidia* /etc/udev/devices
>chown root.root /etc/udev/devices/nvidia*
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>Then re-run the nVidia installer.
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>Now try a re-boot cycle and see what happens. It should boot into X
>without problem if the udev issue is in fact the etiology of your
>problem.
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>If you do not or have not run the above two steps, you will need to re-
>install the nVidia driver every time you re-boot, not just when booting
>a new or different kernel.
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>I am guessing that the udev related nVidia issue is not resolved via the
>latest udev updates, which suggests that this may be an nVidia installer
>issue and not a Fedora issue. Thus, there would not be a fix coming in
>udev.
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>Also, just for clarification as I am not sure that this has been
>mentioned to you in this thread, since you are new to Linux. Unlike
>Winders, about the only time that you need to re-boot Linux is when you
>need to boot a new or different kernel. Otherwise, pretty much all other
>updates can be "hot" installed without a re-boot needed.
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>HTH,
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>Marc
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It works though when I reboot. I don't need to reinstall. Should I go 
ahead and run what you suggested? If it won't hurt anything I'll give it 
a shot.