Can't get nvidia drivers working, despite working perfect in F11 Rawhide

BrianV · #1 18th June 2009, 06:05 PM

Hi all.

I am trying to get the proprietary nvidia drivers running on my system, and am having major trouble. They worked perfectly when I tested Rawhide for several months prior to F11 being released. However, I have not gotten them to work yet on the F11 release version.

I am using a Geforce 7300GS. Nouveau works fine, lacking 3d, of course.

Thank you in advance for any help! From here on, I will describe the process I am taking, and what exactly I see.

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I install the kmod as usual:

Code:

[root@brian-desktop brian]# yum install kmod-nvidia

Which installs the following packages:

Code:

[root@brian-desktop brian]# rpm -qa *nvidia*
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-185.18.14-2.fc11.x86_64
akmod-nvidia-185.18.14-1.fc11.x86_64
kmod-nvidia-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.x86_64-185.18.14-1.fc11.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-185.18.14-2.fc11.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-185.18.14-2.fc11.i586
[root@brian-desktop brian]#

Following this I reboot... and X never comes up. It looks like X starts, but nothing is drawn on the screen - I don't even get the login screen.

Here is the xorg.conf:

Code:

# Xorg configuration created by livna-config-display

Section "Files"
        ModulePath   "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
        ModulePath   "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
        Option      "AIGLX" "on"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard0"
        Driver      "nvidia"
        Option      "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
        Option      "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

Here is a Xorg.0.log for trying to boot with the nvidia drivers: http://www.brianvuyk.com/Xorg.0.log.txt

Of note are the blocks:

Code:

(II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized GPU GART.
(II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized GPU GART.
(II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized GPU GART.
(II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized GPU GART.
(II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized GPU GART.
(II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized GPU GART.
(II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized GPU GART.
(II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized GPU GART.
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Error recovery failed.
(EE) NVIDIA(0):  *** Aborting ***

Code:

(II) LoadModule: "glx"
(II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia//libglx.so
dlopen: libGLcore.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
(EE) Failed to load /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia//libglx.so
(II) UnloadModule: "glx"
(EE) Failed to load module "glx" (loader failed, 7)

Code:

(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the GLX module; please check in your X
(EE) NVIDIA(0):     log file that the GLX module has been loaded in your X
(EE) NVIDIA(0):     server, and that the module is the NVIDIA GLX module.  If
(EE) NVIDIA(0):     you continue to encounter problems, Please try
(EE) NVIDIA(0):     reinstalling the NVIDIA driver.

This is driving me absolutely batty. If I can't get this to work, then I may just switch to another distro. I really hope I can avoid that as I've really come to like Fedora while testing F11 Rawhide. However, I would really like to be able to use 3d as well.

EDIT:

Code:

[root@brian-desktop brian]# uname -a
Linux brian-desktop 2.6.29.4-167.fc11.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed May 27 17:27:08 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux