Re: Help! - F12 Nvidia boot errors

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On 02/17/2010 06:03 PM, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 13:28 -0500, Gary Waters wrote:
>> On 02/17/2010 12:42 PM, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 09:48 -0500, Gary Waters wrote:
>>>> Greetings from newbieland,
>>>>
>>>> I tend to fall behind and upgrade Fedora every 2-3 versions down the
>>>> line. I just installed F12, did some research on installing the nvida
>>>> drivers. I have uninstalled nouveau and kmod-nvidia is also not
>>>> installed. The proprietary nvidia driver appeared to install without any
>>>> diffulties and appears to be working in system/preferences/nvidia
>>>> x-server settings; however, I get the following bootup error messages:
>>>>
>>>> checking for module nvidia.ko in fc12: failed
>>>> nvidia.ko for kernel 2.6.31.12-174.2.19.fc12x86_64 was not found
>>>> the nvidia driver will not be enabled until one is found
>>>>
>>>> Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I've done a lot of googling and
>>>> experimenting. Could this have something to do with xorg.conf? I have
>>>> been reading so many different "solutions" that I'm beginning to feel
>>>> vapourlocked and would rather get advice here before I screw things up more.
>>
>>
>>> My advice would be to remove the nvidia-packaged drivers and install
>>> kmod-nvidia from rpmfusion.  That's worked reliably for me with recent
>>> versions.  Also added "rdblacklist=nouveau" to the kernel line
>>> in /etc/grub/conf.
>>
>>
>> I just tried the installation method here:
>>
>> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=234595
>>
>> It made no difference. I still get the error messages in the orange
>> triangle at the login screen
>>
>> Step 13 for this method is as follows:
>>
>> 13. $ cd /etc/X11&&  vi xorg.conf
>> Add the following lines to the "Files" section:
>> ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
>> ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers"
>> ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
>>
>> Would I need to modify anything there before uninstalling the nvidia and
>> proceeding with Kmod? I assume this is the correct procedure for kmod:
>>
>> http://fedorasolved.org/video-solutions/nvidia-yum-kmod
>
> That looks correct, except that it looks like it misses blacklisting the
> nouveau module at boot.
>
> I think you should be able to just delete xorg.conf before installing.
> Fedora currently doesn't use it for the drivers it distributes, so the
> kmod-nvidia stuff should know to create it.  Fedorasolved lists a HOWTO
> to make sure you've deleted everything from the nvidia run package.  One
> test is to make sure you can boot and get graphics from the nouveau
> driver again.
>
> If you have an older card, be sure to get the right version of the
> driver package.

Ok.... I reinstalled the nvidia driver again...the run installation. On 
a whim I omitted ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers" in 
xorg.conf and everything fell perfectly into place. No more error 
messages. Thanks for your help! I appreciate it.!

Gary



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