F12,F11 & F10 Nvidia driver guides

[leigh123linux]

Originally Posted by StefanJ

(Background: My last Fedora installs were FC8. I used the nvidia packages from the livna repo at the time and had a pretty good handle on things.)

Did a fresh install of F12 from DVD on my Mythbox (Abit motherboard, Geforce 7050 / 630).

I ended up with the 2.6.31.5-127.FC12.i686.PAE kernel.

Decided to go "atrpms only" to avoid some of the repo hell issues I ran into back in the day.

Per the MythTV install guide, I ran 'yum install nvidia-graphics.' . This ended up messing me up for a while, since it was the non-PAE version.

I got X up and running by removing xorg.conf and letting the default-chosen driver, nouveau, do the job. This let me finish installing Myth and getting my system to teh point where it could record programs.

Now I want to get full nVidia graphics working so I can play back in decent quality.

This morning I removed the useless-to-me 'nvidia-graphics' package and looked for "nvidia-graphics.PAE". No luck. I did find:

nvidia-graphics185(yaddayadda)2.6.31.5-127.FC12.i686.PAE kernel

(Above from memory, I'm at work.)

I installed that. yum showed a kernel module with the PAE extension. Goody!

Rebooted. System came up fine.

But nothing has apparently changed! There is no nVidia configuration panel. /var/log/messages doesn't show a kernel module loading. Xorg.0.log shows nouveau still active. And there's no xorg.conf!

Now, back in the day I'd run system-config-display (or GUI equivalent), choose a driver, and have it handle things. It would write a xorg.conf that just needed a little tweaking.

Now I'm feeling pretty lost.

Did you follow post #1 as your post is a jumbled mess with little useful info.

[StefanJ]

Sorry for the confusing post.

I did read the sticky posts up top, but felt they didn't apply because I am using the "nvidia-graphics" package from atrpms.

If this thread deals with the freshrpms packages only I'll ask elsewhere.

[leigh123linux]

Originally Posted by StefanJ

Sorry for the confusing post.

I did read the sticky posts up top, but felt they didn't apply because I am using the "nvidia-graphics" package from atrpms.

If this thread deals with the freshrpms packages only I'll ask elsewhere.

Mostly rpmfusion packages


Step 2 still applies + you will need to blacklist nouveau and tweak selinux if you use it.


add this to the bottom of /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

 blacklist nouveau

[StefanJ]

Excellent, I'll modify grub.conf this afternoon and give it a whirl.

Thanks

stefan

EDIT:

I edited grub, added the blacklist line to modprobe.conf. Selinux is in permissive mode so I assume I don't need to set that.

Something is still not right. The kernel command line shows the edit, but it doesn't like it. From my /var/log/message file:

Nov 20 15:40:50 localhost kernel: PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000
Nov 20 15:40:50 localhost kernel: Allocating PCI resources starting at d0000000 (gap: d0000000:20000000)
Nov 20 15:40:50 localhost kernel: NR_CPUS:32 nr_cpumask_bits:32 nr_cpu_ids:2 nr_node_ids:1
Nov 20 15:40:50 localhost kernel: PERCPU: Embedded 15 pages at c3bc9000, static data 37788 bytes
Nov 20 15:40:50 localhost kernel: Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 972926
Nov 20 15:40:50 localhost kernel: Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol01 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet nouveau.modeset=0 vmalloc=256m
Nov 20 15:40:50 localhost kernel: Unknown boot option `nouveau.modeset=0': ignoring
Nov 20 15:40:50 localhost kernel: PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes)

At least the kernel module appears to be loading:

Nov 20 15:40:50 localhost kernel: nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
Nov 20 15:40:50 localhost kernel: Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
Nov 20 15:40:50 localhost kernel: NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module 185.18.36 Fri Aug 14 17:18:04 PDT 2009

Oh, for the record:

[root@mythbox log]# echo $KVER
2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686.PAE

Installed Packages
nvidia-graphics-devices.noarch 1.0-6.fc12 @atrpms
nvidia-graphics185.18.36-kmdl-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.PAE.i686 185.18.36-116.fc12 @atrpms
nvidia-graphics185.18.36-libs.i686 185.18.36-116.fc12 @atrpms

[Hlingler]

Installed Packages
nvidia-graphics-devices.noarch 1.0-6.fc12 @atrpms
nvidia-graphics185.18.36-kmdl-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.PAE.i686 185.18.36-116.fc12 @atrpms
nvidia-graphics185.18.36-libs.i686 185.18.36-116.fc12 @atrpms

You seem to be missing a couple of packages from the suite, as well as not having the latest available from ATRPMs:
nvidia-graphics190.42-kmdl-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.PAE-190.42-119.fc12.i686.rpm
nvidia-graphics190.42-libs-190.42-119.fc12.i686.rpm
nvidia-graphics190.42-190.42-119.fc12.i686.rpm
nvidia-graphics-devices-1.0-6.fc12.noarch.rpm
nvidia-graphics-helpers-0.0.29-30.fc12.i686.rpm

and if you want automatic kmdl updates:
yum-plugin-kmdl

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[StefanJ]

OK. I had an incomplete set because I installed the items seperately, rather than use the nvidia-graphics.i386 suite.

I didn't yum install that because there didn't seem to be a PAE option.

I just not yum installed that, seperately installed the PAE version of the corresponding kernel module, then removed the non-PAE version.

On reboot, I saw the beloved nVIDIA logo.

Now I have to reset my desktop settings . . . the console and dialog box text is teeeny weeny.

Thanks all

Stefan