Can't install nvidia drivers

[Lawrence Graves]

On 12/20/2011 12:41 AM, Ian Malone wrote:
> On 20 December 2011 00:32, Kevin Martin<kevintm at ameritech.net>  wrote:
>
>
>> So after working on this all afternoon with Lawrence, it turned out that we needed to fall back to the 280.13 version of the nVidia
>> akmod from F15 to get it to work.  With the 290.10 and the 285.05.09 we kept seeing this in the Xorg.5.log file (don't know why it
>> was creating the .5 log file but that's another problem for another time):
>>
> I think the .5 is because it tries to start X multiple times if it
> fails, and creates a log with a different .N for each attempt.
>
>> [    42.538] (**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling 2D acceleration
>> [    43.913] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to get supported display device(s)
>> [    43.933] (WW) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Failed to query OR info 0x24
>> [    43.935] (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU Quadro FX 2500M (G71GL) at PCI:1:0:0 (GPU-0)
>>
>>
>> Going back to the 280.13 version fixed this.
> Congratulations both on that hard work paying off, it's been a pretty
> long road to get this one solved.
>
You were certainly apart of this fix. Thanks for all your help and 
involvement in getting this resolved. I have sent Nvidia people a bug as 
to their problem with 290.10-1. Hopefully they will do something about 
when they feel like.:-)
-- 
Lawrence Graves All things are workable but don't all things work.
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