Fedora 11 and kmod-nvidia

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Hello,

I can't get the Nvidia legacy drivers running. I've the following packages, which are the right ones for my kernel:

[root@homebox crash]# yum list installed |grep nvidia
akmod-nvidia.i686 185.18.36-1.fc11 @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
kmod-nvidia-2.6.30.8-64.fc11.i686.PAE.i686
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.i586 185.18.36-1.fc11 @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i586 185.18.36-1.fc11 @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates

and I added nouveau to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf and created a new mkinitrd which boots. But the X11 window system doesn't start up, so I checked if nouveau is loaded and it's really blacklisted. When I manually modprobe nvidia kernel driver I get the following error:

FATAL: Error inserting nvidia (/lib/modules/2.6.30.8-64.fc11.i686.PAE/extra/nvidia/nvidia.ko): No such device

and some warnings from the module that 185.18.36 doesn't support my CPU.

My video card is:

[root@homebox crash]# lspci | grep 01:00.0
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8600M GT (rev a1)

Try to figure this out for two days now. Rpmfusion is really frustrating for me

Adding vmalloc=256m to the kernel parameters and Option "ConstantFrameRateHint" "True" in xorg.conf also didn't help.

Any help appreciated. Thanks

[xint]

Couldn't figure out what the problem is. kmod-nvidia didn't work for me at all.

For those who will find this thread by Google: Your only hope is to use the driver directly from nvidia.com and reinstall it after every kernel update.

I switched back to Zenwalk

[wrue]

I have all the same kernel and packages and the same ERROR.
Can somebody help as. I hope so.

yum list installed |grep nvidia
kmod-nvidia-2.6.30.8-64.fc11.i686.PAE.i686
kmod-nvidia-PAE.i686 185.18.36-1.fc11.2 installed
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.i586 185.18.36-3.fc11 installed
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i586 185.18.36-3.fc11 installed

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Is this issue still unfxied? Or is it gone with newer Kernel and nvidia packages under Fedora 12?

[Magickman]

I tried the same thing multiple times, had a Nvidia G-Force PCI card in my machine. I got kmod-nvidia to work perfectly with all Fedoras up to 10, with 11 I never once got it working. Then I installed a new board, with ATI Radeon onboard sound, and couldn't get those drivers to work with 11 either. Do the install, and boot to a black screen. I wonder if I should try to install the drivers in 12? Did they get this issue fixed?

Here is a tip for you Fedora software coders:
There is a little distro named PC Linux, http://pclinuxos.com which is RPM based and comes in Gnome and KDE. It has a little utility, in the utilities folder on the desktop. With this utility, you can easily install either Nvidia or ATI drivers, the correct ones, and it works every time.

Personally, I think Fedora would be great with this utility, how about the rest of you?

[leigh123linux]

Originally Posted by wrue

I have all the same kernel and packages and the same ERROR.
Can somebody help as. I hope so.

yum list installed |grep nvidia
kmod-nvidia-2.6.30.8-64.fc11.i686.PAE.i686
kmod-nvidia-PAE.i686 185.18.36-1.fc11.2 installed
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.i586 185.18.36-3.fc11 installed
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i586 185.18.36-3.fc11 installed

Why don't you update the driver?, according to rpmfusion 190.42 is availabe

http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfr...rv-nvidia.html

[wrue]

Yes, I have installed the newest version ... !

kmod-nvidia-2.6.30.9-96.fc11.i586.i586
kmod-nvidia-2.6.30.9-96.fc11.i686.PAE.i686
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.i586 190.42-1.fc11 @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i586 190.42-1.fc11 @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
All is fine now.
Thanks for all help