Nvidia Mx-440 graphics card problem
 

Hello. I am new here so please if this is not in the right place I'm sorry.

I have recently installed Fedora 9 and I tried to install my graphics card. I searched in the Fedora Faq and in other websites and they all had the same steps:

su -

yum install kmod-nvidia

init 3

nvidia-config-display enable

reboot

The problem is when I reboot then it starts in text mode. I tried doing init 5 but when it is about to start it freezes. It freezes in some point where its about to start "Anacron" (don't know if that is the name, sorry)

I have to reboot, log as root and yum remove kmod-nvidia, then it starts normally.

I'm sorry for some mistake there may be but my english is not very good.
Probably I didn't gave enough information, so, anything you think that helps solving my problem just ask.


Thanks in advance.

Artic

Unfortunately your card is considered a legacy GPU so you have to use the 96xx driver - See here for more information. Before you install the 96xx driver though you'll have to remove the "regular" nvidia one since they're incompatible:
There's just one package that I can't remove unless I know more information, to save time this script will auto-remove it:Now you're ready to install the 96xx driver.
Firewing1

What is the point of installing the 96xx driver in F9 ? as it doesn't work with the F9 xorg server !

Shoot, I had forgotten about that...

You'll also have to downgrade X - Leigh has a guide for doing this with fglrx / the ATI drivers, but if you skip the ATI part it will work fine for nVidia too.
Firewing1

Thanks for the help. Right now I'm not at home, but I'll try it later.

Thanks a lot

Hi. sorry to bother again.

I followed Leigh's guide to downgrade X and right now im at the part where it says to install the driver.
I have to install the 96xx driver right?

When i type this
I get this message:

I followed every step including the 2 ones Firewing1 said.

If you could help me i would be very gratefull

Thanks

Hello:

Yes, you still need the legacy 96xx NVidia driver.

Please post:
> Results of: yum repolist
> Contents of file (or attach copy to post): /etc/yum.repos.d/livna.repo

V

Because the driver isn't ready to work out-of-the-box with Fedora 9 yet it's kept out of the main Livna repository - You'll need to enable livna-testing like this:Note that if you switch kernels a lot, you may be interested in akmod-nvidia-96xx. It's identical to kmod-nvidia-96xx, however it also installs the development tools required to build a new kmod. When a kernel is run that you don't have a kmod for, the akmod system generates and installs a new corresponding kmod-nvidia-96xx package. The kmod and akmod packages are compatible, so you can install them together at once like this:
Firewing1

Thanks for both answers. I'll try later when i get home.

Hi,
I am in the same boat (using an even older Mx 200 card). In addition I am trying to use dual monitors (my second card is an onboard intel card) I am running into issues after I installed 96xx rpms from atrpms. I get errors saying that DRI cannot be started and glx cannot be enabled because of version problems between my driver and the kernel. I will try to install the way it is suggested in this thread and repost if I have issues.

thanks

hi skurdekar you are using atrpms and not lvina
for fedora 8
http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mj...ra-f8.html#yum
http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mj...f8.html#nvidia
fedora 9 --unsupported for Mx 200 card

Firewing1 I used the first command of your last post here and then i tried to install again and still says:
No package kmod-nvidia-96xx available.
No package xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-96xx available.
Nothing to do

Thanks for your help

Artic

I get the following error.
Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//nvidia-96.43.05_drv.so
dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//nvidia-96.43.05_drv.so: undefined symbol: AllocateScreenPrivateIndex
(EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//nvidia-96.43.05_drv.so
(II) UnloadModule: "nvidia-96.43.05"
(EE) Failed to load module "nvidia-96.43.05" (loader failed, 7)

I guess this is just not supported yet?

hi Artic first seeing as the legacy nvidia drivers ARE not supported in 9 they will NOT be in the livna 9 repo use the fedora 8 livna repo for the driver
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and skurdekar did you remove the old WRONG version driver first
depending on what it was ???( WHAT was it from atrpms that you installed )
you may NEED to remove it first
http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mj...f8.html#nvidia
your old card is supported just fine in fedora 8

Hi JohnVV thanks for your help.

May i ask you to (if you can, of course) write how do I do that?
I'm still new to linux. Started about 2 weeks ago.

Thanks. Artic