Fedora 14 Nvidia 7300gt Problem

[eternalmemory]

I am having difficulty loading fedora 14 with nvidia 7300gt.


I have lots of text on the screen but I cannot enter anything then system hangs there only.
The same system runs fine with windows XP
The same system runs fine when I use onboard graphic card and disable nvidia.

I installed the fedora 14 by disabling nvidia graphic card and used onboard grphic card.
I had exactly the same problem with ubuntu, I was not even able to boot from live cd with nvidia.
Now I want to use my nvidia graphic card for fedora. Please help!!!!

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

nouveau driver which is default for Nvidia Cards in Fedora is not working for your Card. You have to disable it and install Proprietary Nvidia Driver manually.

Enable Nvidia Card and boot up in Command Line Mode.

Highlight Fedora title in GRUB Menu and press 'e'. Select 'kernel' line and press 'e' again. Add <space> 1 at the end of line and hit 'Enter' key. Press 'b' and Fedora will boot up in command line mode.

Highlight Fedora title -- e -- select kernel line -- e -- type 1 -- hit Enter key -- b

Open /boot/grub/grub.conf file and add rdblacklist=nouveau nouveau.modeset=0 at the end of kernel line.

nano /boot/grub/grub.conf

Kernel line will look like this :

        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.35.6-48.fc14.i686 .... rdblacklist=nouveau nouveau.modeset=0

Press Ctrl+X, Y and hit Enter key to save file. Execute shutdown -r now to reboot machine.

Check if machine boot up in GUI mode. You have to install Nvidia Proprietary driver now.

[eternalmemory]

I tried that and got the same problem. Maybe 3 columns of text scrolling quickly.
My kernel line is something like this

Kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35.11-83.fc14.i686 root=UUID=fbbc69be-2e10-476a-b6a2-afabf97 aaeqe rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_LVM rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_us. UTF-8 sysfont=latarcyrheb-sum 16 KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet nouveau.modeset=0 rdblacklist=nouveau

Maybe I changed it while installing nvidia graphic card driver after starting fedora through my onboard graphic card.

I am sending you a youtube link(as I cant post it here right now) which shows what exactly happens to my system.

[devils casper]

I am sending you a youtube link(as I cant post it here right now) which shows what exactly happens to my system.

Link (Reference for other members)

Disable Nvidia Card and boot up using Onboard Graphics Card. Try to install Nvidia Proprietary Driver.
Check if kernel update is available in repos. You have to re-install driver on every kernel update. It's better to check now than later.

su -
yum update kernel*

If Yum updates kernel, reboot machine.

If you haven't installed RPMFusion repositories, install those now.

rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm

Install driver now :

yum install kmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs

Shutdown machine and enable Nvidia Card. In case it doesn't work, post the contents of /etc/X11/xorg.conf file here.

[eternalmemory]

I did what you said but now I lost GUI through my onboard graphic card and Nvidia Card still not working.

I opened /etc/x11/xorg.conf by using

Vim /etc/x11/xorg.conf

And found that the file was blank. I tried to save and close it with “:wq”, got this error message

E212:can’t open file for writing

I used the command “Xorg –configure” which resulted in these lines

(EE) module ABI major version (6) doesn’t match the server’s version (8)
(EE) failed to load module “ast” (module requirement mismatch, 0)
(EE) failed to load module “vmwgfx” (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) vmware: Please ignore the above warnings about not being able to load module/driver vmwgfx)
(++) Using config file: “/root/xorg.conf.new”
(==) Using config directory: “/etc/x11/xorg.conf.d”
The PCI device has a kernel module claiming it.
The driver cannot operate until it has been unloaded
Number of created screens does not match number of detected devices
Configuration failed

Then I opened “/root/xorg.conf.new’. Using “vim /root/xorg.conf.new”. I am posting its result.

Section “ServerLayout”
	Identifier	“x.org configured”
	Screen        0	“Screen0” 00
	Screen        1	“Screen1” RightOf  “Screen0”
	InputDevice	“Mouse0” “CoreKeyboard”
	InputDevice	“Keyboard0” “CoreKeyboard”
EndSection

Section “Files”
	ModulePath	“/usr/lib/xorg/modules”
	FontPath	“Catalogue: /etc/x11/fontPath.d”
	FontPath	“built-ins”
EndSection

Section “Module”
	Load	“record”
	Load	“glx”
	Load	“dri”
	Load	“extmod”
	Load	“dri2”
	Load	“dbe”
EndSection
Section “InputDevice”
	Identifier	“Keyboard0”  
	Driver		“Kbd”
EndSection

Section “InputDevice”
	Identifier	“Mouse0”
	Driver		“mouse”
	Option		“Protocol” “auto”
	Option		“Device” “/dev/input/mice”
	Option		“ZAxisMapping” “4 5 6 7”
EndSection

Section “Monitor”
	Identifier	“Monitor0”
	VendorName	“Monitor Vandor”
	ModeName	“Monitor Model”
EndSection

Section “Monitor”
	Identifier	“Monitor1”
	VendorName	“Monitor Vandor”
	ModeName	“Monitor Model”
EndSection

Section “Device”
	### Available Driver options are:-
	### Values: <i>:integer,<f>:floot,<bool>:”True”/”False”,
	### <string>:”string”,<freq>:”<f> Hz/KHz/MHz”,
	### <Percent>:”<f>%”
	### [arg]:arg optional
	#Option	“SWcursor”	#[<bool>]
	#Option	“HWcursor”	#[<bool>]
	#Option	“NoAccel”	#[<bool>]
	#Option	“ShadowfB”	#[<bool>]
	#Option	“UsefBDev”	#[<bool>]
	#Option	“Rotate”	#[<str>]
	#Option	“VideoKey”	#<i>
	#Option	“FlatPanel”	#[<bool>]
	#Option	“FPDither”	#[<bool>]
	#Option	“crtcNumber”	#<i>
	#Option	“FPScale”	#[<bool>]
	#Option	“FPTweak”	#<i>
	#Option	“DualHead”	#[<bool>]
	Identifier	“card0”
	Driver		“nv”
	BusID		“PCI:1:0:0”
EndSection 

Section “Device”
	### Available Driver options are:-
	### Values: <i>:integer,<f>:floot,<bool>:”True”/”False”,
	### <string>:”string”,<freq>:”<f> Hz/KHz/MHz”,
	### <Percent>:”<f>%”
	### [arg]:arg optional
	#Option	“NoAccel”	#[<bool>]
	#Option	“SWcursor”	#[<bool>]
	#Option	“ColorKey”	#<i>
	#Option	“CacheLines”	#<i>
	#Option	“Dac6Bit”	#[<bool>]
	#Option	“DRI”  	#[<bool>]
	#Option	“NoDDC”	#[<bool>]
	#Option	“ShowCache”	#[<bool>]
	#Option	“XvMCSurfaces”   #<i>
	#Option	“Pageflip”	#[<bool>]
	Identifier	“card1”
	Driver		“intel”
	BusID		“PCI:0:2:0”
EndSection 

Section “Screen”
	Identifier	“Screen0”
	Device		“card0”
	Monitor	“Monitor0”
	SubSection “Display”
		Viewport	00
		Depth		1
	EndSubSection
	SubSection “Display”
		Viewport	00
		Depth		4
	EndSubSection
	SubSection “Display”
		Viewport	00
		Depth		8
	EndSubSection
	SubSection “Display”
		Viewport	00
		Depth		15
	EndSubSection
	SubSection “Display”
		Viewport	00
		Depth		16
	EndSubSection
	SubSection “Display”
		Viewport	00
		Depth		24
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section “Screen”
	Identifier	“Screen1”
	Device		“card1”
	Monitor	“Monitor1”
	SubSection “Display”
		Viewport	00
		Depth		1
	EndSubSection
	SubSection “Display”
		Viewport	00
		Depth		4
	EndSubSection
	SubSection “Display”
		Viewport	00
		Depth		8
	EndSubSection
	SubSection “Display”
		Viewport	00
		Depth		15
	EndSubSection
	SubSection “Display”
		Viewport	00
		Depth		16
	EndSubSection
	SubSection “Display”
		Viewport	00
		Depth		24
	EndSubSection
EndSection

I tried to copy this file and got the following er

cp /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/x11/xorg.conf
cp: Cannot create regular file ‘/etc/x11/xorg.conf:No Such file or directory

[devils casper]

It Capital X in X11.

cd /etc/X11
less xorg.conf

[eternalmemory]

. The output is:

#RPM fusion – nvidia-xorg.conf
#
Section “Device”
	Identifier	“videocard0”
	Driver		“nvidia”
EndSection

[ryptyde]

With Fedora 14 and a nVidia card you should try installing the "mesa-dri-drivers-experimental" from the Fedora repo instead of the proprietary nVidia driver. I use the mesa-dri-drivers-experimental with
three different nVidia cards and F14, the 7300GS, 7600GS and the 9500GT. All work fine for me.

phil

[karan999]

my friend had this problem.now its solved.thankyou.

[devils casper]

Could you share the solution over here? Other members might have similar problem and your solution may work for them too.