FedoraFAQ.org - commands for install of NVIDIA drivers do not work

[Paul Howarth]

Claude Jones wrote:
> On Tuesday August 01 2006 9:14 am, Paul Howarth wrote:
>> The advice I gave to Mark was based on his use of the nvidia installer
>> directly; the file contexts for a properly-packaged RPM like the one
>> from livna will be different because the files will be somewhere else
>> (and the context fixes might even be done in the RPM itself; I don't know).
> 
> I'm trying to troubleshoot a couple of problems with software packages, and 
> I'm in a bit over my head. The problems are with the game ppracer and with 
> Jahshaka, the video editing package. In both cases, they depend on GL - in 
> both cases, the programs initiate seemingly normally, then quit without any 
> error messages. Jahshaka just shuts down immediately after display of the 
> splash screen. Ppracer gives you its menus but shuts down as soon as you try 
> to initiate a game...

If you put SELinux in permissive mode:

# setenforce 0

and the problem still persists, then it's probably not an SELinux issue.

You can re-enter enforcing mode using:

# setenforce 1

Paul.