F16,F15 & F14 Nvidia driver guides - Page 90

modal1 · #**1336** 10th November 2010, 09:59 PM

For anyone who has an older nvidia card, mine is a GeForce4 Ti 4200, for which GLX is not supported by any of the newer drivers, I got mine to work on FC14 by first removing anything related to nvidia:
*This all should be done on a tty command line (not a pts terminal within an X session*) as root or using sudo and in runlevel 3:

Code:

rpm -qa|grep nvidia

and

Code:

rpm -qa|grep nv|grep x11

outputs the names of the files to remove with yum:

Code:

yum remove *output of the previous 2 commands*

example:

Code:

yum remove xorg-x11-drv-nv  akmod-nvidia

Reinstalled xorg-x11-drv-nv-2.1.15-6.fc14.i686:

Code:

yum install xorg-x11-drv-nv

Then I downloaded the following driver from nvidia's ftp site: ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Li...43.19-pkg1.run - I couldn't find this one on their website and the previous version, x86-96.43.18, did not work for me after upgrading from FC13.

Code:

./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-96.43.19-pkg1.run

answer yes to all dialogs. Then check your /etc/X11/xorg.conf to make sure that

Code:

Driver      "nvidia"

is set under the Device section.

Now it works again with GLX/Compiz !

This was just me messing around. I'm no linux guru or anything, so your mileage may vary. You may be able to skip removing xorg-x11-drv-nv - I did not as I wanted to remove everything and start fresh, just in case there was some FC13 files left behind.

I have not tried this driver with any other nvidia cards. Good luck!

MSK61 · #**1337** 11th November 2010, 02:22 PM

I've just installed fedora 14 64-bit, KDE edition. I've then installed akmod-nvidia-260.19.12-1.fc14.1.x86_64 from rpmfusion. When I try to boot, I don't get anything beyond all the services loading(since I hit Esc when I come to the blue screen with the big f letter). I checked /var/log/Xorg.0.log and it showed the nvidia driver wasn't loaded with pointers to more details in /var/log/messages. I checked that latter file and found the following lines pertaining to the nvidia driver:

Code:

Nov 11 09:46:54 home kernel: [   19.939950] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
Nov 11 09:46:54 home kernel: [   19.939952] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
Nov 11 09:46:54 home kernel: [   20.427990] NVRM: The NVIDIA probe routine was not called for 1 device(s).
Nov 11 09:46:54 home kernel: [   20.427995] NVRM: This can occur when a driver such as nouveau, rivafb,
Nov 11 09:46:54 home kernel: [   20.427996] NVRM: nvidiafb, or rivatv was loaded and obtained ownership of
Nov 11 09:46:54 home kernel: [   20.427998] NVRM: the NVIDIA device(s).
Nov 11 09:46:54 home kernel: [   20.428001] NVRM: Try unloading the conflicting kernel module (and/or
Nov 11 09:46:54 home kernel: [   20.428003] NVRM: reconfigure your kernel without the conflicting
Nov 11 09:46:54 home kernel: [   20.428004] NVRM: driver(s)), then try loading the NVIDIA kernel module
Nov 11 09:46:54 home kernel: [   20.428005] NVRM: again.
Nov 11 09:46:54 home kernel: [   20.428008] NVRM: No NVIDIA graphics adapter probed!
Nov 11 09:46:54 home kdm[1551]: X server died during startup
Nov 11 09:46:54 home kdm[1551]: X server for display :0 cannot be started, session disabled

It seems the nouveau driver is still loaded. I noticed in the first posts in this thread that instructions were given to remove nouveau from kernels(or initrd images) of fedora 11, 12, and 13, but no such instructions for fedora 14. However it seems I'm experiencing similar problems in F14 to those encountered in previous releases. Also when I lsmod, I find that nouveau is really loaded.

Is my guess right regarding to the nouveau problem? If so, what can I do? Can I simply try the solution of f12 and f13 for example?

Thanks in advance for your help.

modal1 · #**1338** 11th November 2010, 07:40 PM

Quote:

Is my guess right regarding to the nouveau problem? If so, what can I do? Can I simply try the solution of f12 and f13 for example?

I have upgraded the same box from 12 to 13 and now 14 and just left the settings from the former installations and nouveau is not loading, so yes that should do it.

aCROX999 · #**1339** 12th November 2010, 07:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gnufreex

Hmm... lucky you

My 3d doesn't work, and kernel says it is not tainted, so NVIDIA driver is not even loaded. I just installed the fix, but it just removed the notification triangle, driver still doesn't work

Yeah, the fix only made system-config-display and livna-config-display working, but there's no 3D acceleration.

MSK61 · #**1340** 12th November 2010, 11:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by modal1

I have upgraded the same box from 12 to 13 and now 14 and just left the settings from the former installations and nouveau is not loading, so yes that should do it.

In my case it was a fresh installation of fedora 14, maybe this was why it happened with me. The strange thing was that my previous F12 and F13 installations were fresh installations as well, but I never had that problem with nouveau(; I even never had to do the manual steps for removing the nouveau driver.

Anyway thanks for the tip, I'm going to give it a try.

---------- Post added at 01:05 PM GMT ---------- Previous post was at 10:46 AM GMT ----------

It really worked when I blacklisted the nouveau driver on the kernel line of grub.conf. I don't know yet why I didn't have to do that with F12 and F13. Thanks for the tip anyway.

sikku · #**1341** 13th November 2010, 11:49 AM

How do I know if my Graphics Card is perfectly installed with all drivers?
Coz I dont see any difference from my default mother board graphics visuals and my new nvidia 210 graphics card visuals.
Is there any way to test?

antonis9891 · #**1342** 13th November 2010, 04:25 PM

Hi to all. Please help me with my problem.
I installed fedora 14 x86_64 on my system. I followed the instructions exactly like the first post says, and I can't get into my fedora now.
It starts, the loading bar appears, but when it loads full and become all white, it stucks there. I stops when it says "start atd".
Now I can't do anything.
I tried second time with just:
"su
yum update.....OK
reboot
yum install akmod-nvidia.....OK
reboot"
and the same happens.

I am really sorry for the wrong section. Please remove it if you'd like, and also forgive my poor English.

ghoul · #**1343** 13th November 2010, 06:08 PM

I had exactly the same problem as antonis9891.

The solution was to add following option to the end of the 'kernel' line in /etc/grub.conf:
rdblacklist=nouveau nomodeset
(This is recommended on rpmfusion for F12/13)

NickLee · #**1344** 15th November 2010, 09:13 AM

Driver from RPMFusion (akmod-nvidia)

mplayer complains about not being able to find libvdpau_nvidia.so

I made link from /usr/lib64/libvdpau_nvidia.so to /usr/lib64/vdpau/libvdpau_nvidia.so.260.12.19
Now vdpau works.

TheWarden · #**1345** 19th November 2010, 10:48 AM

Anybody else not able to turn on KDE desktop effects in F14? The Nvidia driver is installed and working correctly (glxgears/glxinfo) but everytime I try to enable KDE desktop effects (opengl) it can't start it. My .xsession-errors complains of:

kwin(5619) KWin::Workspace::setupCompositing: Initializing OpenGL compositing
kwin(5619): Couldn't find framebuffer configuration for default depth!
kwin(5619): Failed to initialize compositing, compositing disabled

I just let nvidia-xconfig setup my xorg.conf. Everything works as expected in F12 on the same machine.

ZingBah · #**1346** 19th November 2010, 03:07 PM

Well I did this;

su
rpm -Uvh *AS per post #1*
yum install kmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686

I then received RPMFusion update notifications (Which I installed) and rebooted.

Driver had installed fine.

---------- Post added at 03:07 PM GMT ---------- Previous post was at 02:47 PM GMT ----------

Quote:

Originally Posted by sikku

How do I know if my Graphics Card is perfectly installed with all drivers?
Coz I dont see any difference from my default mother board graphics visuals and my new nvidia 210 graphics card visuals.
Is there any way to test?

System ---> Administration ---> Nvidia X server settings.

My screen resolution had changed upon reboot so I knew it had installed. I am a recent convert from Windows so I'm still trying to familiarise.

spacefrog · #**1347** 20th November 2010, 03:18 PM

I did a F14 fresh installl, installed drivers akmod. After reboot X did not load so i disabled nouveau module as specified, now it's fine. The driver is ok for my GTX295 enven if in some conditions the Scale plugin (Compiz) seems a bit laggy.
Anyway, thank you very much for the tutorial, it worked fine for me

Dors · #**1348** 21st November 2010, 05:32 AM

Hmmm, so if I install f13 and upgrade to 14 will the card work fine? Or would it be the same laggy fedora 14?
Thanks

YogiBare · #**1349** 22nd November 2010, 11:27 AM

Hi,

I've been here before and am unfortunately here again :-(

I have updated my kernel to 2.6.36-1.fc15.x86_64 using the rpms posted by leigh123linux (which solved several issues with my sound. THANKS leigh123linux!!!). I installed all four packages as instructed by this post.

I have made sure to blacklist nouveau iin grub.conf
I ran the nvidia binary with "-k $(uname -r)

Here is all the information I can think of.

Code:

[L0key@BlackBox ~]$ uname -r
2.6.36-1.fc15.x86_64
[L0key@BlackBox ~]$ cat /etc/fedora-release 
Fedora release 13 (Goddard)
[L0key@BlackBox ~]$ rpm -qa | grep nvidia | sort
akmod-nvidia-260.19.21-1.fc13.x86_64
kmod-nvidia-260.19.21-1.fc13.x86_64
kmod-nvidia-2.6.34.6-54.fc13.x86_64-260.19.21-1.fc13.x86_64
kmod-nvidia-2.6.34.7-61.fc13.x86_64-260.19.21-1.fc13.x86_64
kmod-nvidia-2.6.36-1.fc15.x86_64-260.19.21-1.fc13.x86_64
nvidia-kmod-debuginfo-260.19.04-1.fc13.x86_64
nvidia-settings-1.0-8.fc13.x86_64
nvidia-xconfig-1.0-5.fc13.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-260.19.21-1.fc13.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-debuginfo-260.19.04-1.fc13.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-260.19.21-1.fc13.x86_64
[L0key@BlackBox ~]$ locate nvidia.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.34.6-54.fc13.x86_64/extra/nvidia.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.34.6-54.fc13.x86_64/extra/nvidia/nvidia.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.34.7-61.fc13.x86_64/extra/nvidia/nvidia.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.36-1.fc15.x86_64/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko
/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/2.6.34.6-47.fc13.x86_64/extra/nvidia/nvidia.ko.debug
/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/2.6.34.6-54.fc13.x86_64/extra/nvidia/nvidia.ko.debug

I'm still getting the;
nvidia.ko for kernel 2.6.36-1.fc15.x86_64 was not found. [WARNING]
The nvidia driver will not be enabled until one is found. [WARNING]

any help is appreciated.

Thanks in advance :-D

leigh123linux · #**1350** 22nd November 2010, 11:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by YogiBare

Hi,

I've been here before and am unfortunately here again :-(

I have updated my kernel to 2.6.36-1.fc15.x86_64 using the rpms posted by leigh123linux (which solved several issues with my sound. THANKS leigh123linux!!!). I installed all four packages as instructed by this post.

I have made sure to blacklist nouveau iin grub.conf
I ran the nvidia binary with "-k $(uname -r)

Here is all the information I can think of.

Code:

[L0key@BlackBox ~]$ uname -r
2.6.36-1.fc15.x86_64
[L0key@BlackBox ~]$ cat /etc/fedora-release 
Fedora release 13 (Goddard)
[L0key@BlackBox ~]$ rpm -qa | grep nvidia | sort
akmod-nvidia-260.19.21-1.fc13.x86_64
kmod-nvidia-260.19.21-1.fc13.x86_64
kmod-nvidia-2.6.34.6-54.fc13.x86_64-260.19.21-1.fc13.x86_64
kmod-nvidia-2.6.34.7-61.fc13.x86_64-260.19.21-1.fc13.x86_64
kmod-nvidia-2.6.36-1.fc15.x86_64-260.19.21-1.fc13.x86_64
nvidia-kmod-debuginfo-260.19.04-1.fc13.x86_64
nvidia-settings-1.0-8.fc13.x86_64
nvidia-xconfig-1.0-5.fc13.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-260.19.21-1.fc13.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-debuginfo-260.19.04-1.fc13.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-260.19.21-1.fc13.x86_64
[L0key@BlackBox ~]$ locate nvidia.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.34.6-54.fc13.x86_64/extra/nvidia.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.34.6-54.fc13.x86_64/extra/nvidia/nvidia.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.34.7-61.fc13.x86_64/extra/nvidia/nvidia.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.36-1.fc15.x86_64/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko
/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/2.6.34.6-47.fc13.x86_64/extra/nvidia/nvidia.ko.debug
/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/2.6.34.6-54.fc13.x86_64/extra/nvidia/nvidia.ko.debug

I'm still getting the;
nvidia.ko for kernel 2.6.36-1.fc15.x86_64 was not found. [WARNING]
The nvidia driver will not be enabled until one is found. [WARNING]

any help is appreciated.

Thanks in advance :-D

Post

Code:

rpm -qf  /lib/modules/2.6.36-1.fc15.x86_64/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko

It should return this

Code:

[leigh@localhost ~]$ rpm -qf /lib/modules/2.6.36-1.fc15.x86_64/extra/nvidia/nvidia.ko
kmod-nvidia-2.6.36-1.fc15.x86_64-260.19.21-1.fc13.x86_64
[leigh@localhost ~]$