Fedora 10 + Nvidia 6100 go fails with proprietary drivers

Greg spowd at bigpond.com
Tue Oct 14 09:34:04 UTC 2008


On 14/10/2008 7:48 PM, Valent Turkovic wrote:
> Hi,
> I installed Fedora 10 beta on HP tx1000 and everything worked out of
> the box except wireless because it is broacom :( I fixed that with
> loading broadcom firmware.
>
> This is my first Nvidia laptop that I have worked on in last few years
> (all I have worked on have Intel video chips) so I'm not sure what to
> expect from Nvidia proprietary drivers (and sorry for posting about
> non open source stuff here).
>
> I installed latest kmod-nvidia drivers from livna-development repo but
> after reboot I don't get to the GDM :(
>
> I looked at Xorg.0.log and it says that it can't initialise display...
>
> Is there something broken in Nvidia drivers so that they aren't
> supossed to work on Fedora 10 beta or do the Nvidia proprietary
> drivers work for others but not only for me?
>
> Cheers,
> Valent.
>
>    
http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/169.07/README/appendix-a.html




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