Re: Can't install nvidia drivers

Kevin Martin <kevintm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Fri, 16 Dec 2011 10:44:31 -0600

    On 12/16/2011 10:35 AM, Lawrence Graves wrote:

      On 12/16/2011 09:27 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:

        Am 16.12.2011 17:23, schrieb Lawrence Graves:

          On 12/16/2011 09:17 AM, linux guy wrote:

            On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Lawrence Graves <lgraves95@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

              On 12/16/2011 08:52 AM, linux guy wrote:

The above assuming you are running F16...  I haven't followed your
thread closely.  Sorry.

Yes. I can not get a graphical screen back once I install nvidia drivers so
I am unable to give you anymore information.

            ctrl-alt F2, F3... etc. will get you a command line session.

Have you run this ?
mv /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r)-nouveau.img
dracut /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)

          Linux guy:
Yes.  After I doing all you have ask me to do, I am still not able to get the nvidia drivers to work. Could I send
you a picture of my screen to your private email address as it will be to large to send to this email address.
The picture shows you what I get after installation and reboot.

        jesus christ you have to explain "I did a runlevel drop to 3 now I can't
get rpm -qa | grep nvidia* to work." first because it seems you are
doing randomly things without understanding what they are supposed to do

you have to make sure that the "nouveau" drivers are not get loaded
or unload them manually to test anything

      I went to inittab at root and changed the runlevel to 3 because I
      was told that sometimes you have to change the runlevel in order
      to get the nividia drivers install and then do a nvidia-xconfig to
      change it back to runlevel 5. Sorry for the confusion but I am
      thoroughly confused about all of this. I wish I sent my laptop to
      you. I believe it is something simple but I am not able to define
      in tech terms so all of you though you mean well are not able to
      help because I am not able to explain or demonstrate what is
      that's going on.

      -- 

        Lawrence Graves  All things are workable
          but don't all things work.

    Ok, so you're in runlevel 3 (if you're using F16 then you would do
    this, as root, by doing " systemctl isolate runlevel3.target" in a
    terminal). Do the following as root:

    1). lsmod | grep nouveau

    If you see nouveau modules installed then you need to "rmmod
    nouveau"

    2). Once that is done, do "akmods --force" (this will build and
    probably load the nvdia driver).

    3). lsmod | grep nvidia

        If you *don't* see nvidia, try doing a "modprobe nvidia" and
    then redo the lsmod in step 3; it should be loaded at that point.

    4). assuming all of this has worked, do your "nvidia-xconfig".

    5). assuming *that* works, then do "systemctl isolate
    runleve5.target".  This *should* put you back to an X-Windows
    session using the nvidia driver.

    Kevin

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