F11 Nvidia 8300 GS and kmod-nvidia-PAE fail

[Zacharie Elcor]

same problem for me with a 7900GS except I don't see any syslog message
about selinux when X tries to start.
Disabling selinux seems to get round it.

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Mike Cloaked <mike.cloaked at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> Has anyone had a total failure to run kmod-nvidia with an 8300 GS graphics
> card in f11?
> My system
> (
> http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_0461ec99-2d05-44bf-ac48-1a0d78a17c52
> )
> used to run with the kmod-nvidia-PAE installed from rpmfusion just fine in
> f10 with no issues at all.
>
> When I installed (clean) the new f11 system on this machine (in fact two
> machines with this card both have identical issues), the install was fine,
> I
> then yum updated to the latest kernel and, as per my normal upgrade
> procedure, then yum installed kmod-nvidia-PAE from rpmfusion.  This process
> worked without issue on two other machines which have nvidia graphics cards
> (but not the 8300 card). On rebooting, the boot began as normal (text
> kms/plymouth with the blue/white running line on the bottom of the screen),
> but as soon as x should start - it didn't. There was a blank screen with a
> flashing cursor at top right only. I removed the kmod-nvidia package, and
> xorg.conf and ran without it until yesterday.
>
> After updating the system to the new kernel yesterday I booted to the new
> kernel 2.6.30.9-90.fc11.i686.PAE - which was fine and tried yum install
> kmod-nvidia-PAE (which is the correct version of kmod-nvidia for this card
> and kernel I believe) and rebooted - same as the original problem - after
> the plymouth non-graphical boot, blank screen with flashing cursor - except
> that some seconds later a couple of lines of text appeared on the screen
> related to selinux audit. I removed kmod-mvidia and am running without it
> again - this morning in the syslog there are lines:
>  audit(1256631766.417:29202): auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295
> subj=system_u:system_r:readahead_t:s0 op=remove rule key=(null) list=2
> res=1
>
> However I am not sure this is directly related to the kmod-nvidia-PAE or
> not.
>
> Anyway I wonder if anyone else has had a problem with this card and an
> inability to use kmod-nvidia? If so is there a known workaround?
>
> Thanks for any replies.
> --
> View this message in context:
> http://www.nabble.com/F11-Nvidia-8300-GS-and-kmod-nvidia-PAE-fail-tp26091296p26091296.html
> Sent from the Fedora List mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>
> --
> fedora-list mailing list
> fedora-list at redhat.com
> To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
> Guidelines:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/attachments/20091108/d5d60e99/attachment-0001.htm>