hornett Posted April 28, 2004 Share Posted April 28, 2004 Am I doing something obviously wrong here? I've run the NVIDIA installer, and updated XF86Config as normal. Have I done something wrong? I don't see the NVIDIA logo when X starts and glxinfo reports that no glx is available. PS I'm running this on Fedora Core 2, Test 3. # Xorg configuration created by system-config-display Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "single head configuration" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Section "Files" # RgbPath is the location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the # file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally # no need to change the default. # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together) # By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of # the X server to render fonts. RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" FontPath "unix/:7100" EndSection Section "Module" Load "dbe" Load "extmod" Load "fbdevhw" Load "glx" Load "record" Load "freetype" Load "type1" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1)) # Option "Xleds" "1 2 3" # To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable. # Option "XkbDisable" # To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the # lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S. # keyboard, you will probably want to use: # Option "XkbModel" "pc102" # If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use: # Option "XkbModel" "microsoft" # # Then to change the language, change the Layout setting. # For example, a german layout can be obtained with: # Option "XkbLayout" "de" # or: # Option "XkbLayout" "de" # Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys" # # If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and # control keys, use: # Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps" # Or if you just want both to be control, use: # Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps" # Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "keyboard" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "gb" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes" EndSection Section "Monitor" ### Uncomment if you don't want to default to DDC: ### Uncomment if you don't want to default to DDC: # HorizSync 31.5 - 48.5 # VertRefresh 40.0 - 70.0 Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Monitor Vendor" ModelName "LCD Panel 1024x768" ### Uncomment if you don't want to default to DDC: # HorizSync 31.5 - 37.9 VertRefresh 50.0 - 60.0 Option "dpms" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "Videocard vendor" BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce 4 (generic)" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes "1024x768" EndSubSection EndSection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted April 29, 2004 Veteran Share Posted April 29, 2004 It looks good. That is, your "Screen0" uses your "Videocard0", and "Videocard0" is set to "nvidia" for a driver. If glxinfo shows that you don't have your hardware acceleration enabled, then I would suspect that the module is not loaded... Try typing /sbin/lsmod | grep nvidia and see if it responds by listing your nvidia module. If not, then I suspect that something went wrong during the install process. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hornett Posted April 29, 2004 Author Share Posted April 29, 2004 Thanks, as soon as this download I've got going finishes I'll boot back into Fedora and post it. Though, the install process did seem to go OK (no errors were displayed anyway). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hornett Posted April 29, 2004 Author Share Posted April 29, 2004 Module Size Used by floppy 53808 0 snd_mixer_oss 13952 2 snd_ice1724 35404 3 snd_ice17xx_ak4xxx 3200 1 snd_ice1724 snd_ac97_codec 54404 1 snd_ice1724 snd_pcm 82568 1 snd_ice1724 snd_page_alloc 8068 1 snd_pcm snd_timer 25092 1 snd_pcm snd_ak4xxx_adda 4992 2 snd_ice1724,snd_ice17xx_ak4xxx snd_mpu401_uart 7296 1 snd_ice1724 snd_rawmidi 21408 1 snd_mpu401_uart snd_seq_device 6280 1 snd_rawmidi snd 43748 11 snd_mixer_oss,snd_ice1724,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_ak4xxx_adda,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device soundcore 7520 3 snd 8139too 22272 0 mii 3712 1 8139too microcode 5408 0 nls_utf8 1664 1 nls_cp437 5504 1 vfat 13184 1 fat 38944 1 vfat dm_mod 33952 0 uhci_hcd 27164 0 button 4632 0 battery 7052 0 asus_acpi 8600 0 ac 3468 0 ipv6 208928 6 ext3 93224 1 jbd 65304 1 ext3 [hornett@hive hornett]$ There's no nvidia modules listed :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted April 29, 2004 Veteran Share Posted April 29, 2004 Something went wrong. Try again, and post the output (if possible) on here. It may make a log of the process (it should tell you during or immediately after the install). If so, post that here, and we will take a look at it. Every time I update my kernel, I need to re-run and compile the nvidia module into it, so I am getting quite good at it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kemical Posted April 29, 2004 Share Posted April 29, 2004 make sure you are not in X when you run the nvidia install Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hornett Posted April 29, 2004 Author Share Posted April 29, 2004 OK I've found the problem...FC2 seems to use the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf to configure X. Anyway, this version of Fedora is so unstable I can't stand to use it. I know it is a test release but it seems to be much much worse than test 2. :( Oh well, I'll see if I can report the problems, anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slapnuts_ox Posted April 29, 2004 Share Posted April 29, 2004 just remember if you are using the official redhat kernel that the nvidia drivers are broken and will not work becuase the kernel has 4kstacks enabled. you will have to recompile your own kernel until nvidia releases a new driver with the fix. edit: i forgot....what problems are you having with stability? my test install was running for the past 40 days before I decided to compile a new kernel and its still working fine for me. I have kept it updated with rawhide updates so i basically have test 3 on my machine to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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