Fedora 13 + KDE + NVidia Settings

[dayalsoap]

Hi All.
I'm totally new to Fedora (more importantly, I'm totally new to KDE).

I believe the Nvidia drivers were installed by default.. as I run the command:

/sbin/lspci -nn | grep 'VGA\|NV'

I get:
nVidia Corporation G92 [GeForce 8800 GT] [10de:0611] (rev a2)

However, when I do nvidia-settings, I get "command not found".

How do I see if the proprietary Nvidia drivers are installed?

Also, with GNome (on Ubuntu for sure), I can see a GUI tool to configure my NVidia settings.. how do I access this tool with KDE?

Thanks!

[meton_magis]

as root, run `updatedb` this will create an index list of all of the files on your computer. then you can run
`locate nvidia`
to find all files that have nvidia in the name (it is case sensitive.)

also, lspci just checks your pci bus for hardware. all that the command tells you is that you have an nvidia graphics card, not the driver.

I have not yet used Fedora 13 (I work today have to wait till tomorow,) so I can't comment on its differences, but I usualy install nvidia drivers from the rpmfusion repositories. You should check them out (package name is kmod-nvidia)

[ech0]

The Windows manager you're using -- whether KDE, Gnome, or whatever -- are independent of the drivers installed.

Fedora 13 uses the new neavou Nvidia drivers which worked great for getting my dual monitors setup (fastest, easiest setup I've ever had for dual monitors in Linux -- worked out of the box). However, hardware acceleration did NOT work, so I went with the proprietary Nvidia drivers anyway.

Try typing this in console:

rpm -q nvidia-settings

If that shows up, then you have the nvidia-settings GUI panel installed and, thus, the drivers. I'm not sure where KDE puts it in the menus (I'm a Gnome man myself), but you should be able to launch the control panel using the command:

nvidia-settings

If you need to install drivers, I recommend following this guide here:

The Windows manager you're using -- whether KDE, Gnome, or whatever -- are independent of the drivers installed.

Fedora 13 uses the new neavou Nvidia drivers which worked great for getting my dual monitors setup (fastest, easiest setup I've ever had for dual monitors in Linux -- worked out of the box). However, hardware acceleration did NOT work, so I went with the proprietary Nvidia drivers anyway.

Try typing this in console:

rpm -q nvidia-settings

If that shows up, then you have the nvidia-settings GUI panel installed and, thus, the drivers. I'm not sure where KDE puts it in the menus (I'm a Gnome man myself), but you should be able to launch the control panel using the command:

nvidia-settings

I don't have enough posts on this forum yet to post links apparrently (D, but if you need to install drivers I recommend going to Fedora forum .org (no spaces) and checking the guide section for the guides to install Nvidia drivers.

[dayalsoap]

When I run this command
rpm -q nvidia-settings

I get
package nvidia-settings is not installed

I want to install the Nvidia drivers.

It's very easy on Ubuntu (not noveau). Is it just as easy on ehre? there HAS to be a way to do it via package manager....

The Windows manager you're using -- whether KDE, Gnome, or whatever -- are independent of the drivers installed.

Fedora 13 uses the new neavou Nvidia drivers which worked great for getting my dual monitors setup (fastest, easiest setup I've ever had for dual monitors in Linux -- worked out of the box). However, hardware acceleration did NOT work, so I went with the proprietary Nvidia drivers anyway.

Try typing this in console:

rpm -q nvidia-settings

If that shows up, then you have the nvidia-settings GUI panel installed and, thus, the drivers. I'm not sure where KDE puts it in the menus (I'm a Gnome man myself), but you should be able to launch the control panel using the command:

nvidia-settings

If you need to install drivers, I recommend following this guide here:

The Windows manager you're using -- whether KDE, Gnome, or whatever -- are independent of the drivers installed.

Fedora 13 uses the new neavou Nvidia drivers which worked great for getting my dual monitors setup (fastest, easiest setup I've ever had for dual monitors in Linux -- worked out of the box). However, hardware acceleration did NOT work, so I went with the proprietary Nvidia drivers anyway.

Try typing this in console:

rpm -q nvidia-settings

If that shows up, then you have the nvidia-settings GUI panel installed and, thus, the drivers. I'm not sure where KDE puts it in the menus (I'm a Gnome man myself), but you should be able to launch the control panel using the command:

nvidia-settings

I don't have enough posts on this forum yet to post links apparrently (D, but if you need to install drivers I recommend going to Fedora forum .org (no spaces) and checking the guide section for the guides to install Nvidia drivers.

[dayalsoap]

When I run "locate nvidia" I get the following:

/lib/modules/2.6.33.3-85.fc13.x86_64/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia
/lib/modules/2.6.33.3-85.fc13.x86_64/kernel/drivers/video/backlight/mbp_nvidia_bl.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.33.3-85.fc13.x86_64/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia/nvidiafb.ko
/usr/lib64/libkwinnvidiahack.so.4
/usr/lib64/libkwinnvidiahack.so.4.4.0
/usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/21-video-quirk-nvidia.fdi


So it appears that the stuff is installed?

I just want to see if it's enabled...

The Windows manager you're using -- whether KDE, Gnome, or whatever -- are independent of the drivers installed.

Fedora 13 uses the new neavou Nvidia drivers which worked great for getting my dual monitors setup (fastest, easiest setup I've ever had for dual monitors in Linux -- worked out of the box). However, hardware acceleration did NOT work, so I went with the proprietary Nvidia drivers anyway.

Try typing this in console:

rpm -q nvidia-settings

If that shows up, then you have the nvidia-settings GUI panel installed and, thus, the drivers. I'm not sure where KDE puts it in the menus (I'm a Gnome man myself), but you should be able to launch the control panel using the command:

nvidia-settings

If you need to install drivers, I recommend following this guide here:

The Windows manager you're using -- whether KDE, Gnome, or whatever -- are independent of the drivers installed.

Fedora 13 uses the new neavou Nvidia drivers which worked great for getting my dual monitors setup (fastest, easiest setup I've ever had for dual monitors in Linux -- worked out of the box). However, hardware acceleration did NOT work, so I went with the proprietary Nvidia drivers anyway.

Try typing this in console:

rpm -q nvidia-settings

If that shows up, then you have the nvidia-settings GUI panel installed and, thus, the drivers. I'm not sure where KDE puts it in the menus (I'm a Gnome man myself), but you should be able to launch the control panel using the command:

nvidia-settings

I don't have enough posts on this forum yet to post links apparrently (D, but if you need to install drivers I recommend going to Fedora forum .org (no spaces) and checking the guide section for the guides to install Nvidia drivers.

[dayalsoap]

After installing kmod-nvidia, I can no longer boot.

After starting up, it just shows a jumbled screen. A partion of it is scrambled blue background, with white and grey lines trhough it. Another portion is maroon, and another portion is black.

I'm about to ditch Fedora completely. I ALWAYS have these troubles when I use Fedora. It's very very frustrating.

I don't want to ditch it, but I am frustrated. I know it's a solid distro, I just can't seem to ever get the Nvidia drivers to work.

[drkdick]

After installing kmod-nvidia, I can no longer boot.

I'm about to ditch Fedora completely. I ALWAYS have these troubles when I use Fedora. It's very very frustrating.

I don't want to ditch it, but I am frustrated. I know it's a solid distro, I just can't seem to ever get the Nvidia drivers to work.

I know it can feel frustrating when things don't work out-of-the-box. Just remember that fedora is bleeding edge and F13 has only been out in the wild a few days. Impatient as I am I tried it out as well and found that there's something wrong with the kmod-nvidia installation. So I will revert back to the nouveau driver and wait till it gets fixed (from previous experience this usually happens within a week). If you are not prepared to get frustrated every now and then I suggest you wait a few month for F13 to mature or that you use F12 instead which should be quite stable by now.

Most of the time you can successfully boot the previous working kernel configuration when an update goes wrong. But in this case I had to manually restore the open source driver:

yum remove kmod-nvidia*
yum remove xorg-x11-drv-nvidia*
rm /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau*
rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf*
reboot

If you are locked in a garbled X screen and can't get to a virtual terminal, boot into non-graphical mode or use the rescue option on the installation DVD.

[dayalsoap]

Thank you for your reply. I can't boot to non graphical mode. I get the Grub menu, I select Fedora. The thing starts to load up, then the garbled screen shows. I don't have the option anywhere to boot to terminal.

I think I may have to just wipe it and start over.

I know it can feel frustrating when things don't work out-of-the-box. Just remember that fedora is bleeding edge and F13 has only been out in the wild a few days. Impatient as I am I tried it out as well and found that there's something wrong with the kmod-nvidia installation. So I will revert back to the nouveau driver and wait till it gets fixed (from previous experience this usually happens within a week). If you are not prepared to get frustrated every now and then I suggest you wait a few month for F13 to mature or that you use F12 instead which should be quite stable by now.

Most of the time you can successfully boot the previous working kernel configuration when an update goes wrong. But in this case I had to manually restore the open source driver:

yum remove kmod-nvidia*
yum remove xorg-x11-drv-nvidia*
rm /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau*
rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf*
reboot

If you are locked in a garbled X screen and can't get to a virtual terminal, boot into non-graphical mode or use the rescue option on the installation DVD.

[drkdick]

Thank you for your reply. I can't boot to non graphical mode. I get the Grub menu, I select Fedora. The thing starts to load up, then the garbled screen shows. I don't have the option anywhere to boot to terminal.

I think I may have to just wipe it and start over.

If you still want to try and fix F13, here's one way of bypassing the faulty X driver (if I recall correctly):

- at the grub menu, press 'e' to edit boot parameters for fedora 13
- select the kernel line and press 'e' again
- modify the line by adding a single digit '1' to the end and press return
- boot by pressing 'b'

For this session only you will be booted into single user mode (root user in a terminal).

[dayalsoap]

I don't have a single line under the options..

insmod ext2
set root='(hd1,3)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set blahb lahb
linux /boot/vmlinuz...........................
initrd /boot/initramfs......



stuff like that.

I'm just gonna wipe it. Didn't like KDE anyways. I'll try the default gnome version.

If you still want to try and fix F13, here's one way of bypassing the faulty X driver (if I recall correctly):

- at the grub menu, press 'e' to edit boot parameters for fedora 13
- select the kernel line and press 'e' again
- modify the line by adding a single digit '1' to the end and press return
- boot by pressing 'b'

For this session only you will be booted into single user mode (root user in a terminal).