Problems while installing NVdivia proprietary drivers

[Paul Smith]

Dear All,

I have installed the NVidia property drivers from RPMFusion
repositories, inside a text session.

Afterwards, I ran as root:

nvidia-xconfig

and rebooted.

However, no X session is started after the reboot. Could someone
please give some help?

Thanks in advance,

Paul

[Richard Shaw]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 1:12 PM, Paul Smith  wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I have installed the NVidia property drivers from RPMFusion
> repositories, inside a text session.
>
> Afterwards, I ran as root:
>
> nvidia-xconfig
>
> and rebooted.
>
> However, no X session is started after the reboot. Could someone
> please give some help?

There's a reason that the packages came from RPM Fusion and not Fedora,
namely they are binary proprietary drivers. Therefore it is generally
inappropriate to seek support here.

You could start with the RPM Fusion users mailing list but depending on
what your issue is it may be better to try the Nvidia forums.

Thanks,
Richard

[Joe Zeff]

On 02/24/2015 11:12 AM, Paul Smith wrote:
> I have installed the NVidia property drivers from RPMFusion
> repositories, inside a text session.

There are several different guides for that, some better than others. 
Which one did you use?

BTW, if you really need to get rid of them and start fresh, do this from 
a CLI as root:

yum remove *nvidia*

This will get rid of everything nvidia-related so that when you reboot, 
you're back where you started.

[Doug]

On 02/24/2015 02:19 PM, Richard Shaw wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 1:12 PM, Paul Smith <[e-mail] > wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I have installed the NVidia property drivers from RPMFusion
> repositories, inside a text session.
>
> Afterwards, I ran as root:
>
> nvidia-xconfig
>
> and rebooted.
>
> However, no X session is started after the reboot. Could someone
> please give some help?
>
>
> There's a reason that the packages came from RPM Fusion and not Fedora, namely they are binary proprietary drivers. Therefore it is generally inappropriate to seek support here.
>
> You could start with the RPM Fusion users mailing list but depending on what your issue is it may be better to try the Nvidia forums.
>
> Thanks,
> Richard

Ran into a problem like that with PCLOS. I was advised to do the following:

From the commandline boot, sign on as root. Then do:

apt-get install dkms-nvidia340

XFdrake -auto

reboot

This may work OK for you, since both are rpm systems.

--doug

[Joel Gomberg]

On 02/24/2015 11:12 AM, Paul Smith wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I have installed the NVidia property drivers from RPMFusion
> repositories, inside a text session.
>
> Afterwards, I ran as root:
>
> nvidia-xconfig
>
> and rebooted.
>
> However, no X session is started after the reboot. Could someone
> please give some help?

You don't give very much information, but I'd guess that you installed the wrong 
version of the Nvidia drivers for your card.  RPM Fusion has a guide:

http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia?highlight=%28CategoryHowto%29

[Paul Smith]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 12:47 AM, Joel Gomberg  wrote:
> > I have installed the NVidia property drivers from RPMFusion
> > repositories, inside a text session.
> >
> > Afterwards, I ran as root:
> >
> > nvidia-xconfig
> >
> > and rebooted.
> >
> > However, no X session is started after the reboot. Could someone
> > please give some help?
>
> You don't give very much information, but I'd guess that you installed the
> wrong version of the Nvidia drivers for your card.  RPM Fusion has a guide:
>
> http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia?highlight=%28CategoryHowto%29

Thanks, Joel, so much. Indeed, I had installed the wrong version of
the Nvidia drivers for my card. Now, I have the Nvidia drivers working
perfectly on my machine.

Paul

[Ian Malone]

On 24 February 2015 at 19:19, Richard Shaw  wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 1:12 PM, Paul Smith  wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > I have installed the NVidia property drivers from RPMFusion
> > repositories, inside a text session.
> >
> > Afterwards, I ran as root:
> >
> > nvidia-xconfig
> >
> > and rebooted.
> >
> > However, no X session is started after the reboot. Could someone
> > please give some help?
>
> There's a reason that the packages came from RPM Fusion and not Fedora,
> namely they are binary proprietary drivers. Therefore it is generally
> inappropriate to seek support here.
>
> You could start with the RPM Fusion users mailing list but depending on what
> your issue is it may be better to try the Nvidia forums.

"This list provides community assistance, encouragement, and advice
for Fedora users."
It may be more effective to ask on the RPM Fusion list (or it may not,
as there are more users here), but it's not at all off-topic here.

Anyway, glad to see the OP has got it sorted. I get by just using the
nv driver these days.