Fedora 9 livna kmod-nvidia-173.14.05 problems

stwestbrook · #1 2008-05-30, 11:17 PM CDT

First of all, thank you in advance....

I've tried installing the livna kmod-nvidia on Fedora 9 x64 ( after doing a yum update) and I'm getting the following error when I try to go into X11:

(II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs
(II) Primary Device is:
(EE) No Devices detected.

Fatal server error:
no screens found
giving up
xinit: connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error

Any ideas?

thank you..
-steve

stefan1975 · #2 2008-05-31, 07:07 AM CDT

I do not know your hardware or nvidia type card but for me it is not working either, nor on OpenSuSe11. If I understand correctly it is a bug in the nvidia driver that they recognized but are uncertain if/how/when it will be solved:

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/sho...ighlight=quadro

i do not know why it applies to certain nvidia cards and not to others but the quadro seems to be suffering from this. maybe i will try the 173.08 beta once again

stefan

stwestbrook · #3 2008-05-31, 07:57 AM CDT

I have two 7900's in a SLI configuration. Thank you so much... -steve

notageek · #4 2008-05-31, 09:33 AM CDT

Quote:

after doing a yum update

Was it working before the update?

What is the output of the following

Code:

uname -r 

yum list installed |grep nvidia

stwestbrook · #5 2008-05-31, 01:42 PM CDT

Quote:

Originally Posted by notageek

Was it working before the update?

No, I performed a clean install of Fedora 9, did a yum -y update to install all of the updated software and kernels, rebooted and then added the livna.org rpm. I then ran:

Code:

yum install kmod-nvidia

After rebooting in init5 there is no graphical screen and the Fedora release 9 (Sulphur) blinks about 30 times and stops blinking leaving a text login prompt.

Quote:

What is the output of the following

Code:

uname -r

Code:

uname -r
2.6.25.3-18.fc9.x86_64

Quote:

Code:

yum list installed |grep nvidia

Code:

kmod-nvidia.x86_64         173.14.05-2.lvn9     installed
kmod-nvidia-2.6.25.3-18.fc9.x86_x64.x86_6       173.14.05-2.lvn9   installed
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.x86_64    173.14.05-1.lvn9 installed
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.x86_64   173.14.05-1.lvn9   installed

Thanks in advance..

-steve

stwestbrook · #6 2008-05-31, 01:48 PM CDT

Below is my xorg.conf file:

Code:

# Xorg configuration created by livna-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "Default Layout"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
	ModulePath   "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
	ModulePath   "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
	Option	    "AIGLX" "on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# keyboard added by rhpxl
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "kbd"
	Option	    "XkbModel" "pc105"
	Option	    "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Videocard0"
	Driver      "nvidia"
	Option	    "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Videocard0"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
	Option	    "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

stwestbrook · #7 2008-05-31, 01:55 PM CDT

Below is a link to the Xorg.0.log:

Xorg.0.log

thank you for your help....

stwestbrook · #8 2008-05-31, 02:19 PM CDT

Everyone, it's amazing what happens if you read a man file..... :-)

I put in the xorg.conf file the following under Section "Device"

Code:

BusID    "PCI:1:0:0"

and now X works with nvidia like a champ....

thank you everyone...

-steve

newiLuvatar · #9 2008-05-31, 04:29 PM CDT

thx alot for your post, you just saved my day!

greets

Odeon Nautilus · #10 2008-06-02, 01:16 PM CDT

I have another problem.
I've tried installing the livna kmod-nvidia in Fedora 9 (after doing a yum update) but when Fedora start I gotta a message saying the nvidia modules could not start because there is no kernel for that module. The system continues to load other services and then I gotta do the login screen.
Any help?

newiLuvatar · #11 2008-06-03, 04:16 AM CDT

Quote:

Originally Posted by Odeon Nautilus

I have another problem.
I've tried installing the livna kmod-nvidia in Fedora 9 (after doing a yum update) but when Fedora start I gotta a message saying the nvidia modules could not start because there is no kernel for that module. The system continues to load other services and then I gotta do the login screen.
Any help?

I was once able to install a kmod-nvidia before the right kernel was in the repository (don't ask how that could happen

). it seems livna is a little faster in adding releases than the other fedora repositories (at least this was the case in fedora 8).
you can check if your kernel and the kmod-nvidia have the same version

Code:

$ rpm -qa | grep kmod-nvidia
kmod-nvidia-2.6.25.3-18.fc9.x86_64-173.14.05-2.lvn9.x86_64
kmod-nvidia-173.14.05-2.lvn9.x86_64

$ uname -r
2.6.25.3-18.fc9.x86_64

both kernel version numbers have to match

Odeon Nautilus · #12 2008-06-03, 02:58 PM CDT

Quote:

Originally Posted by newiLuvatar

I was once able to install a kmod-nvidia before the right kernel was in the repository (don't ask how that could happen

). it seems livna is a little faster in adding releases than the other fedora repositories (at least this was the case in fedora 8).
you can check if your kernel and the kmod-nvidia have the same version

Code:

$ rpm -qa | grep kmod-nvidia
kmod-nvidia-2.6.25.3-18.fc9.x86_64-173.14.05-2.lvn9.x86_64
kmod-nvidia-173.14.05-2.lvn9.x86_64

$ uname -r
2.6.25.3-18.fc9.x86_64

both kernel version numbers have to match

Yep!
You are right!
Now with the same kernel and kmod-nvidia the driver runs well.
Thk!
Nautilus.

JordanN · #13 2008-06-04, 12:01 AM CDT

Quote:

Originally Posted by stwestbrook

Everyone, it's amazing what happens if you read a man file..... :-)

I put in the xorg.conf file the following under Section "Device"

Code:

BusID    "PCI:1:0:0"

and now X works with nvidia like a champ....

thank you everyone...

-steve

This worked for me as well.

2x nVidia 8500GT (SLI)

Beerman · #14 2008-06-08, 11:31 AM CDT

This worked somewhat for me I had to change to BusID "PCI:3:0:0"
Then all works well.

2x 6800GS sli

betsubetsu · #15 2008-06-11, 01:11 AM CDT

@Stwestbrook

Do you know why you had to specify

Code:

BusID "PCI:1:0:0"

?

It seems that you have more than one graphical card. check out your Xorg.0.log file.

Code:

(!!) More than one possible primary device found
(--) PCI: (0@1:0:0) nVidia Corporation G71 [GeForce 7900 GT/GTO] rev 161, Mem @ 0xfa000000/16777216, 0xd0000000/268435456, 0xfb000000/16777216, I/O @ 0x0000ac00/128, BIOS @ 0x????????/131072
(--) PCI: (0@4:0:0) nVidia Corporation G71 [GeForce 7900 GT/GTO] rev 161, Mem @ 0xf7000000/16777216, 0xc0000000/268435456, 0xf8000000/16777216, I/O @ 0x00007c00/128