On 02/12/11 12:04, Ian Malone wrote: > On 2 December 2011 08:46, John Pilkington<J.Pilk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> This looks as if it could be another instance of the problems with >> nvidia 290.10 Try reverting or going to the new 'long-lived' 275.36 >> >> Several examples on the atrpms-users list. >> No, I'm not sure at all: I just saw the 290.10 packages and knew that several people, including me, had reported segfaults etc that have gone away after one of the options I suggested. > > Are you sure? From the lsmod and Xorg it looks like nouveau is being > loaded, and nvidia is not. > > If Lawrence has network access in text only mode I would suggest as root: > yum reinstall xorg-x11-drv-nvidia nvidia-settings akmod-nvidia > kmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs > nvidia-xconfig > > (All one line) > > If that doesn't help or there's no net access then (again as root), > first line is moving the file to a backup with today's date: > mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup-20111202 > nvidia-config-display > echo blacklist nouveau>> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf > dracut /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r) > > This (in order), moves your current Xorg configuration to a backup > file, uses nvidia-config-display to create a new one, tells the system > not to use the nouveau driver (you'll need to undo this if you ever > want to use nouveau) and creates a new initrd with nouveau excluded. > Let us know how you get on. > -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
