Nvidia FC4 Crash

Kannon · #1 8th October 2005, 04:45 AM

Sorry if I posted this in the wrong are... but hey, I'm a newbie. I was wondering if anyone ever figured out what the problem with the Nvidia drivers and FC4 was. It worked fine on FC1, and it works fine if you comment out loading GLX. But OpenGL is slow if you do that, and for someone working on OpenGL, and playing opengl games, that's a problem.

jcliburn · #2 8th October 2005, 12:48 PM

I have no problems using the Nvidia Linux driver for my two FC4 machines with installed Nvidia graphics adapters.

multescugeorge@ · #3 8th October 2005, 01:22 PM

Get the newest drivers.The ones from fc1 don't work in fc4

Loki1950 · #4 8th October 2005, 01:28 PM

also insure that you setenforce =0 before you compile the module interface if you do not no glx.

Enjoy the Choice

Kannon · #5 9th October 2005, 03:20 AM

I have the most recent drivers handy, and the card works fine is I comment out GLX, but it crashes on X server startup if I don't. Maybe it was some peculiar detail of the lasti nstallation, or my hardware, well, I'm off to try it again. EDIT: Another crash and burn... one thing I just noticed though, is you're using a 64bit processor, and I'm not. I dunno why that'd make that big of a difference, but it might.

iamroot · #6 9th October 2005, 09:00 AM

Are you using the official NVIDIA drivers or the Livna ones?

Kannon · #7 9th October 2005, 09:32 AM

I'm using the official drivers, I didn't know there were other ones. Might those work a little better?

iamroot · #8 9th October 2005, 09:35 AM

You know how to use Yum? You can install the Livna repository and get the kernel-module-nvidia file. Make sure you get the one corresponding to the kernel you are currently using.

sayeeth · #9 9th October 2005, 09:43 AM

What iamroot means simply is this:-
1. Fire up your favourite terminal and log in as root
2. rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/4/i386/R...5.4.noarch.rpm
3. yum install nvidia-glx kernel-module-nvidia-$(uname -r)
4. Everytime you install a new kernel, you need to do the following before you reboot , yum install kernel-module-nvidia-$(rpm -q --queryformat="%{version}-%{release}\n" kernel | tail -n 1)
Hope that explains things on your side.

iamroot · #10 9th October 2005, 09:52 AM

haha. Yeah. That's basically it=)

imdeemvp · #11 9th October 2005, 10:01 AM

Quick note....for parent poster, are you using 24-bit or higher to play some linux games? I had an issue that I just resolved by changing from 16-bit to 32-bit depth..

You have to edit your /etc/xorg.conf and change the depth to 32-bit under display. Try this nvidia how-to: http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=59937

iamroot · #12 9th October 2005, 10:14 AM

What's the difference?

Kannon · #13 9th October 2005, 10:09 PM

[root@]# yum install nvidia-glx kernel-module-nvidia-$(uname -r)
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates-released
[root@kannon ~]# rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/4/i386/....5.4.noarch.rpm
Retrieving http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/4/i386/....5.4.noarch.rpm
error: skipping http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/4/i386/....5.4.noarch.rpm - transfer failed - Unknown or unexpected error
Segmentation fault

Hm, I know net installations can't stand the proxy server I use, I dunno why. I'm using KDE, and Konsole, though Gnome doesn't do any better. I set up the proxy settings both times, and I'm not sure how to set environment variables in Linux. Could I get a link to the package so I could download it directly, and just rpm -ivh it? I tried yum first, because I was using it fine when I had broadband. EDIT: Well, I figured it out, part of it, going to see if it'll work now

sayeeth · #14 10th October 2005, 08:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kannon

[root@]# yum install nvidia-glx kernel-module-nvidia-$(uname -r)
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates-released
[root@kannon ~]# rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/4/i386/....5.4.noarch.rpm
Retrieving http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/4/i386/....5.4.noarch.rpm
error: skipping http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/4/i386/....5.4.noarch.rpm - transfer failed - Unknown or unexpected error
Segmentation fault

Hm, I know net installations can't stand the proxy server I use, I dunno why. I'm using KDE, and Konsole, though Gnome doesn't do any better. I set up the proxy settings both times, and I'm not sure how to set environment variables in Linux. Could I get a link to the package so I could download it directly, and just rpm -ivh it? I tried yum first, because I was using it fine when I had broadband. EDIT: Well, I figured it out, part of it, going to see if it'll work now

Sure dude, keep us posted. Good luck!

Kannon · #15 11th October 2005, 05:26 AM

I can't seem to get yum to work, I keep getting this series of errors

http://ftp.nara.wide.ad.jp/pub/Linux...rimary.xml.gz: [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out
Trying other mirror.
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 352 kB 02:13
http://less.cogeco.net/pub/fedora/li...rimary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
Trying other mirror.
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 346 kB 02:10
http://www.fedora.is/fedora/core/upd...rimary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
Trying other mirror.
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 346 kB 02:13
http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/cor...rimary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
Trying other mirror.
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 176 kB 01:15
followed by hitting the end of the mirror list. Any ideas?