nvidia drivers worth installing?
Mark Fraser
fedora at mfraz.freeserve.co.uk
Fri Jan 26 16:31:19 UTC 2007
In article <4eaa62d6f1fedora at mfraz.freeserve.co.uk>,
Mark Fraser <fedora at mfraz.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> In article <45B79A57.2060301 at drdc-rddc.gc.ca>,
> Robin Laing <Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca> wrote:
> > Mark Fraser wrote:
> > > In article <loom.20070123T005722-276 at post.gmane.org>,
> > > Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> [Snip]
[Snip]
> I think I've managed to install the nVidia drivers from the Livna site.
> There was some instructions on the fedorasolved website. I'm still not
> 100% convinced I've got it right though, will have to take a more
> thorough look when I get chance.
Looking at my setup again, I'm not sure everything is running correctly.
Firstly the .xsession-errors file has lines like:
localuser:mfraser being added to access control list
xset: bad font path element (#391), possible causes are:
Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
Directory missing fonts.dir
Incorrect font server address or syntax
xset: bad font path element (#391), possible causes are:
Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
Directory missing fonts.dir
Incorrect font server address or syntax
startkde: Starting up...
kbuildsycoca running...
Klipper is already running!
libnm_glib_nm_state_cb: dbus returned an error.
(org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown) The name
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager was not provided by any .service files
Launched ok, pid = 3241
X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 8
Major opcode: 158
Minor opcode: 6
Resource id: 0x187
X Error: BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter) 4
Major opcode: 54
Minor opcode: 0
Resource id: 0x14001c7
QInputContext: cannot create input context for non-toplevel widgets
QInputContext: cannot create input context for non-toplevel widgets
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 8
Major opcode: 158
Minor opcode: 6
Resource id: 0x187
X Error: BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter) 4
Major opcode: 54
Minor opcode: 0
Resource id: 0x1400606
X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
Major opcode: 19
Minor opcode: 0
Resource id: 0x2a00007
QInputContext: cannot create input context for non-toplevel widgets
QInputContext: cannot create input context for non-toplevel widgets
X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 8
Major opcode: 158
Minor opcode: 6
Resource id: 0x187
X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
Major opcode: 19
Minor opcode: 0
Resource id: 0x2a000a0
X Error: BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter) 4
Major opcode: 54
Minor opcode: 0
Resource id: 0x14007a4
kbuildsycoca running...
Reusing existing ksycoca
QClipboard::setData: Cannot set X11 selection owner for PRIMARY
Also typing su -c "yum -d 0 list kernel" brings up:
rpm -qa --qInstalled Packages
kernel.i686 2.6.19-1.2895.fc6 installed
kernel.i586 2.6.18-1.2869.fc6 installed
My xorg.conf is:
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister at builder3) Fri Dec 15
10:12:14 PST 2006
# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
HorizSync 30.0 - 110.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 150.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
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