xorg + nvidia = bad news

[Tommy McNeely]

Well,

I finally trashed up2date.. the "some sort of I/O error occurred, not a
gzip'd file" was getting really old.. yum, however, seems to work just
fine (although it takes a fricken eternity to download the headers the
first time). I followed the various people's steps to get xorg installed
on FC2t1. it worked.. I even enabled the "ld.so.conf.d" stuff before I did
xorg, and I didn't have to re-add the X11 lib path. I did, however have to
add xfs back (chkconfig --add xfs).

Along with xorg, I updated approximately 300 other packages, so this may
or may not have anything to do with xorg. Anyways, when I rebooted, I went
through the normal re-compiling of the nvidia kernel module (I think
"nvidia-installer -f -K") .. and when I did a "startx" it went to a black
screen and just sat there.. couldn't even ping the box anymore.. so I
reset.. and it hung again during RHGB.. so I turned that off and it hung
when it tried to go to init 5... so I booted to the non-smp kernel (cause
it wouldn't have the nvidia driver and would nicely fail).. and changed my
XF86Config to use the "nv" driver... now X starts, but GDM is still hosed.
I get a black screen with an "X" cursor.. if I move the mouse or touch the
keyboard gdm crashes, and comes up to a blue screen saying stuff about how
there is already an X server running.. bla bla bla.. X didn't crash.. its
still there in F7 .. so.. I killed that off and ran startx manually .. and
that seems to work.. ofcourse minus the login screen (gdm) and the dual
head (TwinView) .. since I never logout, I could really care less about
GDM, but if someone has a tip on getting nvidia to work, I would be
greateful :)

[root at cookies root]# rpm -qa | grep xorg
xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
xorg-x11-twm-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
xorg-x11-75dpi-fonts-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
xorg-x11-sdk-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
xorg-x11-xauth-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
xorg-x11-ISO8859-9-75dpi-fonts-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
xorg-x11-devel-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
xorg-x11-font-utils-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
xorg-x11-base-fonts-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
xorg-x11-ISO8859-2-75dpi-fonts-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
xorg-x11-ISO8859-15-100dpi-fonts-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
xorg-x11-tools-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
xorg-x11-cyrillic-fonts-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
xorg-x11-xdm-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
xorg-x11-doc-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
xorg-x11-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
xorg-x11-syriac-fonts-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
xorg-x11-ISO8859-15-75dpi-fonts-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
xorg-x11-ISO8859-14-75dpi-fonts-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
xorg-x11-100dpi-fonts-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
xorg-x11-ISO8859-2-100dpi-fonts-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
xorg-x11-libs-data-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
xorg-x11-xfs-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
xorg-x11-ISO8859-14-100dpi-fonts-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
xorg-x11-Xnest-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
xorg-x11-libs-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
xorg-x11-Xvfb-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
xorg-x11-truetype-fonts-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
xorg-x11-ISO8859-9-100dpi-fonts-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
[root at cookies root]# uname -a
Linux cookies.central.sun.com 2.6.3-2.1.253.2.1 #1 Fri Mar 12 14:01:55 EST 2004 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
[root at cookies root]# rpm -q kernel-smp
kernel-smp-2.6.1-1.65
kernel-smp-2.6.3-2.1.242
kernel-smp-2.6.3-2.1.253
kernel-smp-2.6.3-2.1.253.2.1
[root at cookies root]#

all updates as of (NOW) :)

0000:01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV25 [GeForce4 Ti 4600] (rev a3) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
        Subsystem: VISIONTEK: Unknown device 0037
        Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
        Memory at 52000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
        Memory at c0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
        Memory at c8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=512K]
        Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [44] AGP version 2.0

NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run



Thanks in advance,
Tommy