nVidia driver problem in FC4

**Gardar** · 06-28-2005

Hi.

Well I've posted this before and I still havent managed to work this out. But I did some more checking out what could possibly be wrong.

Im using Fedora Core 4.

Well I've installed the new driver properly and

Code:

modprobe nvidia

show's that the latest driver is installed, how ever it seems to be a problem with my xorg.conf.

Theese are the modules loaded, I know I have to remove the one named "dri"

Code:

ection "Module"
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "extmod"
        Load  "fbdevhw"
        Load  "glx"
        Load  "record"
        Load  "freetype"
        Load  "type1"
#      Load  "dri"                                                                                                         
$EndSection

this is my Device thing.. I know I have to change the "nv" to "nvidia"

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nv"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce FX (generic)"
EndSection

now my problem is... when I change driver to "nvidia" and switch from root to my regular user the screen just stays black no nvidia logo or anything like they say it should be.
I read on a forum that you should do

Code:

 cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/card

It displays that my agp has

Fastwrite support and some other things like
8X
4X
Everything seems to work in #runlevel 3 that is,so it seems like the driver should be working properly But it just wont start x

Code:

 lsmod

the worst thing is My log file doesn't show any Error and I get no Error message after I kill x

Has anyone had this problem before ? or does anyone know a way to fix this ?

With thanks in Advance *kisses*

**techieMoe** · 06-29-2005

Did you reboot after installing the driver? Is your xorg.conf still correct after reboot? What errors do you get when you type startx as a regular user from the console?

**superdan7** · 06-29-2005

http://fedoranews.org/contributors/s...3_note/#nVidia

Maybe this will help

**techieMoe** · 06-29-2005

Originally Posted by superdan7

http://fedoranews.org/contributors/stanton_finley/fc3_note/#nVidia

Maybe this will help

That tutorial addresses an issue in Fedora Core 3, which as far as I know (because it didn't happen for me in FC4) has already been fixed. However there is another tutorial linked on that page for Fedora Core 4 (link here). For the record, I did not need to do any of the exotic things they claim in order to get 3D working with the Nvidia drivers in FC4.

**superdan7** · 06-29-2005

Cool

**greenpenguin** · 06-29-2005

If you're not using the latest drivers that might be you're problem - as soon as I used the latest ones it was fine. Mind you, that's with FC3...

**techieMoe** · 06-29-2005

Originally Posted by greenpenguin

If you're not using the latest drivers that might be you're problem - as soon as I used the latest ones it was fine. Mind you, that's with FC3...

Good point. The latest (as of today) are version 7667, available here.

**neocoolXIIK** · 06-29-2005

yup, I agree. You shouldn't have trouble with the latest drivers. I installed them two days ago. It went quite smoothly ...

**hlstriker** · 06-29-2005

I had the EXACT same problem and finally figured it out after 5-6 hours...

You HAVE to install the updates, I just installed every update not knowing which one would fix it since i'm a Linux noob. Then...

Follow these steps after you got ALL of the updates...

1.) Download and save the Nvidia driver to somewhere...

2.) Ctrl + Alt + F2

3.) Login as Root, once logged in type...

Code:

init 3

4.) Go to the dir you saved the driver, and type...

Code:

sh nvid* --update

5.) Now you have to edit the "xorg.conf" file, so type...

Code:

vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Under the "Driver" "Device" you need to change "nv" to... "nvidia".

NOTE: You said you had to remove the dri under "Module"... YOU DON'T CHANGE THAT!!! I thought that too, but you don't! ONLY CHANGE THE "nv" to "nvidia" in the xorg.conf.

Now save the xorg.conf by typing

Code:

&#58;wq

(make sure you are out of insert mode by pushing esc)

6.) Now type...

Code:

modprobe nvidia

7.) Type...

Code:

init 5

8.) Now that should be it! A reboot would be nice =)

**techieMoe** · 06-29-2005

Originally Posted by hlstriker

You HAVE to install the updates, I just installed every update not knowing which one would fix it since i'm a Linux noob.

Actually, the two systems I installed FC4 on were factory installs, no updates needed. I agree with the rest of your steps though. That's the way I do it.

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