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| Gwen Morse 2005-06-15, 8:48 pm |
| I think this may be an old issue. An acquaintance at the time fixed it
without telling me the fix. I don't have access to him, now.
I installed FC4 on my Dell Inspiron laptop. Installed the nVidia
driver update. I can then start x, but, it only lasts until I shut
down the laptop. Then, I need to reinstall the driver, again.
IIRC, the older problem (that was fixed) was that the kernel was
trying to load the nVidia modules incorrectly. A small shell script
was supposed to have fixed that problem, but, it would need to be
updated if I upgraded the kernel. However, I don't know where this
script is or how to track it down on my laptop, to get it to work with
the newer kernel.
What are my options for getting the nVidia driver to work with my new
FC4 kernel?
Gwen
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| jejones3141 2005-06-16, 2:46 am |
| Gwen Morse wrote:
> I think this may be an old issue. An acquaintance at the time fixed it
> without telling me the fix. I don't have access to him, now.
>
> I installed FC4 on my Dell Inspiron laptop. Installed the nVidia
> driver update. I can then start x, but, it only lasts until I shut
> down the laptop. Then, I need to reinstall the driver, again.
Happened to me on FC3; I believe it's a udev-related thing. Check out
http://lists.leap-cf.org/pipermail/...ary/001010.html
for one person's experience and solution.
James Jones
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| Gwen Morse 2005-06-16, 2:46 am |
| On 15 Jun 2005 20:37:10 -0700, "jejones3141" <jamesjones01@mchsi.com>
wrote:
>Gwen Morse wrote:
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>Happened to me on FC3; I believe it's a udev-related thing. Check out
>http://lists.leap-cf.org/pipermail/...ary/001010.html
>for one person's experience and solution.
>
> James Jones
This little bit turned out to be my fix:
alias char-major-195* nvidia in my modprobe.conf directory.
Thanks for the pointer!!!
Gwen
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| Sandgroper 2005-06-16, 7:46 am |
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"Gwen Morse" <goldmooneachna@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1118888086. 806c145756bfd7494f9e2914f06e67bd@teranew
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> I think this may be an old issue. An acquaintance at the time fixed it
> without telling me the fix. I don't have access to him, now.
>
> I installed FC4 on my Dell Inspiron laptop. Installed the nVidia
> driver update. I can then start x, but, it only lasts until I shut
> down the laptop. Then, I need to reinstall the driver, again.
>
Hi Gwen how are you going ?
I had some problems trying to install the nVidia drivers on FC3 , here are
the instructions that I posted in LinuxQuestions about how I fix it in FC3 ,
it will probably be relevant to FC4
http://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...765#post1481765
The Steps you need to do after installing the nVidia drivers is :
1) copy the nvidia files from /dev -> /etc/udev/devices
cp -a /dev/nvidia* /etc/udev/devices
You should have 9 nVidia files listed in /dev , nvidia0 ......nvidia7 +
nvidiactl
If not , then you will have to use modprobe to get all the files by using
the command :
modprobe nvidia
Then repeat step 1 again.
2) Change the permissions in /etc/udev/permissions.d/50-udev.permissions ,
scroll down to the sections "dri devices" and then change :
nvidia*:root:root:0660
To
nvidia*"root:root:0666
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| Gwen Morse 2005-06-21, 5:47 pm |
| On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 17:15:19 +0800, "Sandgroper"
<steveray@KNICKERSiinet.net.au> wrote:
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>"Gwen Morse" <goldmooneachna@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>news:1118888086. 806c145756bfd7494f9e2914f06e67bd@teranew
s...
>
>Hi Gwen how are you going ?
>
>I had some problems trying to install the nVidia drivers on FC3 , here are
>the instructions that I posted in LinuxQuestions about how I fix it in FC3 ,
>it will probably be relevant to FC4
>
>http://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...765#post1481765
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>The Steps you need to do after installing the nVidia drivers is :
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>1) copy the nvidia files from /dev -> /etc/udev/devices
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> cp -a /dev/nvidia* /etc/udev/devices
I did this (after the modprobe). Changing the permissions wasn't
necessary. I was missing an alias to nvidia in my modprobe.conf file.
Putting it in fixed the x issue.
Thank you for answering my question, it's sure to be useful to other
people, given that it seems to be an ongoing problem with nVidia and
Fedora Core.
Gwen
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