From what I am observing, there is nothing wrong with the nvidia drivers and there is nothing wrong with my nvidia card and there is nothing wrong with my monitor. What I see happening is after installing the nvidia drivers, there is no instructions given to install the nvidia drivers. It is not seeing anything to install or run on. Where ever this has to happen there lies the problem. I don't know who's problem it is.
On 16/12/11 13:51, Lawrence Graves wrote:
From what I am observing, there is nothing wrong with the nvidia drivers and there is nothing wrong with my nvidia card and there is nothing wrong with my monitor. What I see happening is after installing the nvidia drivers, there is no instructions given to install the nvidia drivers. It is not seeing anything to install or run on. Where ever this has to happen there lies the problem. I don't know who's problem it is.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=fedora+nvidia has as #1 hit http://www.fedorafaq.org/#nvidia which states that 'if you have an older card, you may need to install kmod-nvidia-173xx or kmod-nvidia-96xx.' See http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_18897.html for a list of which cards need which driver.
Have you tried that yet? Normally there's no configuration needed after installing the akmod-nvidia package.
HTH, Rich
On 12/16/2011 06:56 AM, Rich Boyce wrote:
On 16/12/11 13:51, Lawrence Graves wrote:
From what I am observing, there is nothing wrong with the nvidia drivers and there is nothing wrong with my nvidia card and there is nothing wrong with my monitor. What I see happening is after installing the nvidia drivers, there is no instructions given to install the nvidia drivers. It is not seeing anything to install or run on. Where ever this has to happen there lies the problem. I don't know who's problem it is.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=fedora+nvidia has as #1 hit http://www.fedorafaq.org/#nvidia which states that 'if you have an older card, you may need to install kmod-nvidia-173xx or kmod-nvidia-96xx.' See http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_18897.html for a list of which cards need which driver.
Have you tried that yet? Normally there's no configuration needed after installing the akmod-nvidia package.
HTH, Rich
Thank you but I have done all of that type of investigation and my nvidia card is supported. I made sure of that when I built this my Dell 9400 Inspiron laptop. It is equipped with the latest hardware I could find in order to keep up with the new tech. It won't be long though before I will have to buy a more up to date laptop.
On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 06:51:10 -0700 Lawrence Graves lgraves95@gmail.com wrote:
From what I am observing, there is nothing wrong with the nvidia drivers and there is nothing wrong with my nvidia card and there is nothing wrong with my monitor. What I see happening is after installing the nvidia drivers, there is no instructions given to install the nvidia drivers. It is not seeing anything to install or run on. Where ever this has to happen there lies the problem. I don't know who's problem it is.
I've found that if you follow closely the following instructions, it will work
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=204752
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 7:50 AM, Brian Millett bmillett@gmail.com wrote:
I've found that if you follow closely the following instructions, it will work
I followed the same instructions and they work well.
On 12/16/2011 08:00 AM, linux guy wrote:
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 7:50 AM, Brian Millettbmillett@gmail.com wrote:
I've found that if you follow closely the following instructions, it will work
I followed the same instructions and they work well.
Gentlemen: I did this twice with no results. This was not the first time I have tried this. I just being obedient.
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Lawrence Graves lgraves95@gmail.com wrote:
Gentlemen: I did this twice with no results. This was not the first time I have tried this. I just being obedient.
I don't doubt you, but please copy and paste your command line session here for us to see.
Also, please yum list *nvidia*, also lsmod | grep nouveau and lsmod | grep nvidia
Thanks
On 12/16/2011 08:30 AM, linux guy wrote:
make that yum list installed *nvidia*
[root@JesusChrist ~]# yum list installed *nvidia* Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * fedora: mirrors.xmission.com * rpmfusion-free: mirrors.tummy.com * rpmfusion-free-updates: mirrors.tummy.com * rpmfusion-nonfree: mirrors.tummy.com * rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: mirrors.tummy.com * updates: mirrors.xmission.com Installed Packages akmod-nvidia.x86_64 1:290.10-1.fc16.4 @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates kmod-nvidia-3.1.5-2.fc16.x86_64.x86_64 1:290.10-1.fc16.4 installed nvidia-settings.x86_64 1.0-13.fc16 @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates nvidia-xconfig.x86_64 1.0-11.fc16 @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.x86_64 1:290.10-1.fc16 @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.x86_64 1:290.10-1.fc16 @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates [
On 12/16/2011 08:30 AM, linux guy wrote:
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Lawrence Graveslgraves95@gmail.com wrote:
Gentlemen: I did this twice with no results. This was not the first time I have tried this. I just being obedient.
I don't doubt you, but please copy and paste your command line session here for us to see.
Also, please yum list *nvidia*, also lsmod | grep nouveau and lsmod | grep nvidia
Thanks
[root@JesusChrist ~]# yum -y install akmod-nvidia Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * fedora: mirrors.xmission.com * rpmfusion-free: mirrors.tummy.com * rpmfusion-free-updates: mirrors.tummy.com * rpmfusion-nonfree: mirrors.tummy.com * rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: mirrors.tummy.com * updates: mirrors.xmission.com Setting up Install Process Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package akmod-nvidia.x86_64 1:290.10-1.fc16.4 will be installed --> Processing Dependency: nvidia-kmod-common >= 1:290.10 for package: 1:akmod-nvidia-290.10-1.fc16.4.x86_64 --> Running transaction check ---> Package xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.x86_64 1:290.10-1.fc16 will be installed --> Processing Dependency: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs(x86-64) = 1:290.10-1.fc16 for package: 1:xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-290.10-1.fc16.x86_64 --> Running transaction check ---> Package xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.x86_64 1:290.10-1.fc16 will be installed --> Finished Dependency Resolution
Dependencies Resolved
================================================================================ Package Arch Version Repository Size ================================================================================ Installing: akmod-nvidia x86_64 1:290.10-1.fc16.4 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates 8.7 M Installing for dependencies: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia x86_64 1:290.10-1.fc16 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates 2.3 M xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs x86_64 1:290.10-1.fc16 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates 18 M
Transaction Summary ================================================================================ Install 3 Packages
Total download size: 29 M Installed size: 98 M Downloading Packages: (1/3): akmod-nvidia-290.10-1.fc16.4.x86_64.rpm | 8.7 MB 00:07 (2/3): xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-290.10-1.fc16.x86_64.rpm | 2.3 MB 00:01 (3/3): xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-290.10-1.fc16.x86_64.rpm | 18 MB 00:10 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1.5 MB/s | 29 MB 00:19 Running Transaction Check Running Transaction Test Transaction Test Succeeded Running Transaction Installing : 1:xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-290.10-1.fc16.x86_64 1/3 Installing : 1:xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-290.10-1.fc16.x86_64 2/3 Installing : 1:akmod-nvidia-290.10-1.fc16.4.x86_64 3/3
Installed: akmod-nvidia.x86_64 1:290.10-1.fc16.4
Dependency Installed: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.x86_64 1:290.10-1.fc16 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.x86_64 1:290.10-1.fc16
[root@JesusChrist ~]# *nvidia* bash: nvidiaisbroken.te: command not found...
[ [root@JesusChrist ~]# lsmod | grep nouveau nouveau 754554 3 ttm 61533 1 nouveau drm_kms_helper 30277 1 nouveau drm 213647 5 nouveau,ttm,drm_kms_helper i2c_algo_bit 5572 1 nouveau i2c_core 28203 5 i2c_i801,nouveau,drm_kms_helper,drm,i2c_algo_bit mxm_wmi 1743 1 nouveau video 12388 1 nouveau [root@JesusChrist ~]# lsmod | grep nvidia [root@JesusChrist ~]#
[root@JesusChrist ~]# *nvidia* bash: nvidiaisbroken.te: command not found...
That command should have been "yum list installed *nvidia*.
[root@JesusChrist ~]# lsmod | grep nouveau nouveau 754554 3 ttm 61533 1 nouveau drm_kms_helper 30277 1 nouveau drm 213647 5 nouveau,ttm,drm_kms_helper i2c_algo_bit 5572 1 nouveau i2c_core 28203 5 i2c_i801,nouveau,drm_kms_helper,drm,i2c_algo_bit mxm_wmi 1743 1 nouveau video 12388 1 nouveau [root@JesusChrist ~]# lsmod | grep nvidia [root@JesusChrist ~]#
Did you reboot between installing the nvidia packages with yum and running this ?
You also needed to do this before rebooting.
mv /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r)-nouveau.img dracut /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)
Could you run those commands and copy and paste them for us. Then reboot. Then run the lsmod commands and paste them here.
Thanks
The above assuming you are running F16... I haven't followed your thread closely. Sorry.
On 12/16/2011 08:52 AM, linux guy wrote:
The above assuming you are running F16... I haven't followed your thread closely. Sorry.
Yes. I can not get a graphical screen back once I install nvidia drivers so I am unable to give you anymore information.
On 12/16/2011 09:59 AM, Lawrence Graves wrote:
On 12/16/2011 08:52 AM, linux guy wrote:
The above assuming you are running F16... I haven't followed your thread closely. Sorry.
Yes. I can not get a graphical screen back once I install nvidia drivers so I am unable to give you anymore information.
Lawrence Graves All things are workable but don't all things work.
And just the stock kernel, not a debug kernel, right?
Kevin
On 12/16/2011 09:03 AM, Kevin Martin wrote:
On 12/16/2011 09:59 AM, Lawrence Graves wrote:
On 12/16/2011 08:52 AM, linux guy wrote:
The above assuming you are running F16... I haven't followed your thread closely. Sorry.
Yes. I can not get a graphical screen back once I install nvidia drivers so I am unable to give you anymore information. -- Lawrence Graves All things are workable but don't all things work.
And just the stock kernel, not a debug kernel, right?
Kevin
Yes.
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Lawrence Graves lgraves95@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/16/2011 08:52 AM, linux guy wrote:
The above assuming you are running F16... I haven't followed your thread closely. Sorry.
Yes. I can not get a graphical screen back once I install nvidia drivers so I am unable to give you anymore information.
ctrl-alt F2, F3... etc. will get you a command line session.
Have you run this ? mv /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r)-nouveau.img dracut /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)
On 12/16/2011 09:17 AM, linux guy wrote:
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Lawrence Graveslgraves95@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/16/2011 08:52 AM, linux guy wrote:
The above assuming you are running F16... I haven't followed your thread closely. Sorry.
Yes. I can not get a graphical screen back once I install nvidia drivers so I am unable to give you anymore information.
ctrl-alt F2, F3... etc. will get you a command line session.
Have you run this ? mv /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r)-nouveau.img dracut /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)
Linux guy: Yes. After I doing all you have ask me to do, I am still not able to get the nvidia drivers to work. Could I send you a picture of my screen to your private email address as it will be to large to send to this email address. The picture shows you what I get after installation and reboot.
Am 16.12.2011 17:23, schrieb Lawrence Graves:
On 12/16/2011 09:17 AM, linux guy wrote:
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Lawrence Graves lgraves95@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/16/2011 08:52 AM, linux guy wrote:
The above assuming you are running F16... I haven't followed your thread closely. Sorry.
Yes. I can not get a graphical screen back once I install nvidia drivers so I am unable to give you anymore information.
ctrl-alt F2, F3... etc. will get you a command line session.
Have you run this ? mv /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r)-nouveau.img dracut /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)
Linux guy: Yes. After I doing all you have ask me to do, I am still not able to get the nvidia drivers to work. Could I send you a picture of my screen to your private email address as it will be to large to send to this email address. The picture shows you what I get after installation and reboot.
jesus christ you have to explain "I did a runlevel drop to 3 now I can't get rpm -qa | grep nvidia* to work." first because it seems you are doing randomly things without understanding what they are supposed to do
you have to make sure that the "nouveau" drivers are not get loaded or unload them manually to test anything
On 12/16/2011 09:27 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 16.12.2011 17:23, schrieb Lawrence Graves:
On 12/16/2011 09:17 AM, linux guy wrote:
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Lawrence Graveslgraves95@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/16/2011 08:52 AM, linux guy wrote:
The above assuming you are running F16... I haven't followed your thread closely. Sorry.
Yes. I can not get a graphical screen back once I install nvidia drivers so I am unable to give you anymore information.
ctrl-alt F2, F3... etc. will get you a command line session.
Have you run this ? mv /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r)-nouveau.img dracut /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)
Linux guy: Yes. After I doing all you have ask me to do, I am still not able to get the nvidia drivers to work. Could I send you a picture of my screen to your private email address as it will be to large to send to this email address. The picture shows you what I get after installation and reboot.
jesus christ you have to explain "I did a runlevel drop to 3 now I can't get rpm -qa | grep nvidia* to work." first because it seems you are doing randomly things without understanding what they are supposed to do
you have to make sure that the "nouveau" drivers are not get loaded or unload them manually to test anything
I went to inittab at root and changed the runlevel to 3 because I was told that sometimes you have to change the runlevel in order to get the nividia drivers install and then do a nvidia-xconfig to change it back to runlevel 5. Sorry for the confusion but I am thoroughly confused about all of this. I wish I sent my laptop to you. I believe it is something simple but I am not able to define in tech terms so all of you though you mean well are not able to help because I am not able to explain or demonstrate what is that's going on.
Am 16.12.2011 17:35, schrieb Lawrence Graves:
jesus christ you have to explain "I did a runlevel drop to 3 now I can't get rpm -qa | grep nvidia* to work." first because it seems you are doing randomly things without understanding what they are supposed to do
you have to make sure that the "nouveau" drivers are not get loaded or unload them manually to test anything
I went to inittab at root and changed the runlevel to 3 because I was told that sometimes you have to change the runlevel in order to get the nividia drivers install
"inittab" does nobody interest and also not the system since Fedora 15 this is controlled by "/etc/systemd/system/default.target"
[root@srv-rhsoft:~]$ stat /etc/systemd/system/default.target Datei: „/etc/systemd/system/default.target“ -> „/lib/systemd/system/runlevel5.target“ Größe: 36 Blöcke: 0 EA Block: 4096 symbolische Verknüpfung
so if you are unable to get runlevel 3 or even not understand what runlevel 3 is you can not go to the next steps because they MUST fail
init 3 is a console-boot WITHOUT graphical UI and can normally also achieved at boot time by add " 3" to the command-line in GRUB
On 12/16/2011 10:35 AM, Lawrence Graves wrote:
On 12/16/2011 09:27 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 16.12.2011 17:23, schrieb Lawrence Graves:
On 12/16/2011 09:17 AM, linux guy wrote:
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Lawrence Graves lgraves95@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/16/2011 08:52 AM, linux guy wrote:
The above assuming you are running F16... I haven't followed your thread closely. Sorry.
Yes. I can not get a graphical screen back once I install nvidia drivers so I am unable to give you anymore information.
ctrl-alt F2, F3... etc. will get you a command line session.
Have you run this ? mv /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r)-nouveau.img dracut /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)
Linux guy: Yes. After I doing all you have ask me to do, I am still not able to get the nvidia drivers to work. Could I send you a picture of my screen to your private email address as it will be to large to send to this email address. The picture shows you what I get after installation and reboot.
jesus christ you have to explain "I did a runlevel drop to 3 now I can't get rpm -qa | grep nvidia* to work." first because it seems you are doing randomly things without understanding what they are supposed to do
you have to make sure that the "nouveau" drivers are not get loaded or unload them manually to test anything
I went to inittab at root and changed the runlevel to 3 because I was told that sometimes you have to change the runlevel in order to get the nividia drivers install and then do a nvidia-xconfig to change it back to runlevel 5. Sorry for the confusion but I am thoroughly confused about all of this. I wish I sent my laptop to you. I believe it is something simple but I am not able to define in tech terms so all of you though you mean well are not able to help because I am not able to explain or demonstrate what is that's going on. -- Lawrence Graves All things are workable but don't all things work.
Ok, so you're in runlevel 3 (if you're using F16 then you would do this, as root, by doing " systemctl isolate runlevel3.target" in a terminal). Do the following as root:
1). lsmod | grep nouveau
If you see nouveau modules installed then you need to "rmmod nouveau"
2). Once that is done, do "akmods --force" (this will build and probably load the nvdia driver).
3). lsmod | grep nvidia
If you *don't* see nvidia, try doing a "modprobe nvidia" and then redo the lsmod in step 3; it should be loaded at that point.
4). assuming all of this has worked, do your "nvidia-xconfig".
5). assuming *that* works, then do "systemctl isolate runleve5.target". This *should* put you back to an X-Windows session using the nvidia driver.
Kevin
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Lawrence Graves lgraves95@gmail.com wrote:
Linux guy: Yes. After I doing all you have ask me to do, I am still not able to get the nvidia drivers to work. Could I send you a picture of my screen to your private email address as it will be to large to send to this email address. The picture shows you what I get after installation and reboot.
I sent you an email.
On 12/16/2011 09:46 AM, Lawrence Graves wrote:
On 12/16/2011 08:30 AM, linux guy wrote:
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Lawrence Graves lgraves95@gmail.com wrote:
Gentlemen: I did this twice with no results. This was not the first time I have tried this. I just being obedient.
I don't doubt you, but please copy and paste your command line session here for us to see.
Also, please yum list *nvidia*, also lsmod | grep nouveau and lsmod | grep nvidia
Thanks
[root@JesusChrist ~]# yum -y install akmod-nvidia Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile  * fedora: mirrors.xmission.com  * rpmfusion-free: mirrors.tummy.com  * rpmfusion-free-updates: mirrors.tummy.com  * rpmfusion-nonfree: mirrors.tummy.com  * rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: mirrors.tummy.com  * updates: mirrors.xmission.com Setting up Install Process Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package akmod-nvidia.x86_64 1:290.10-1.fc16.4 will be installed --> Processing Dependency: nvidia-kmod-common >= 1:290.10 for package: 1:akmod-nvidia-290.10-1.fc16.4.x86_64 --> Running transaction check ---> Package xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.x86_64 1:290.10-1.fc16 will be installed --> Processing Dependency: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs(x86-64) = 1:290.10-1.fc16 for package: 1:xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-290.10-1.fc16.x86_64 --> Running transaction check ---> Package xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.x86_64 1:290.10-1.fc16 will be installed --> Finished Dependency Resolution
Dependencies Resolved
================================================================================  Package              Arch  Version          Repository                Size ================================================================================ Installing:  akmod-nvidia         x86_64 1:290.10-1.fc16.4 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates 8.7 M Installing for dependencies:  xorg-x11-drv-nvidia  x86_64 1:290.10-1.fc16  rpmfusion-nonfree-updates 2.3 M  xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs                       x86_64 1:290.10-1.fc16  rpmfusion-nonfree-updates 18 M
Transaction Summary
Install      3 Packages
Total download size: 29 M Installed size: 98 M Downloading Packages: (1/3): akmod-nvidia-290.10-1.fc16.4.x86_64.rpm          | 8.7 MB    00:07    (2/3): xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-290.10-1.fc16.x86_64.rpm     | 2.3 MB    00:01    (3/3): xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-290.10-1.fc16.x86_64.rpm | 18 MB    00:10   Â
Total                                          1.5 MB/s | 29 MB    00:19    Running Transaction Check Running Transaction Test Transaction Test Succeeded Running Transaction  Installing : 1:xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-290.10-1.fc16.x86_64             1/3  Installing : 1:xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-290.10-1.fc16.x86_64                  2/3  Installing : 1:akmod-nvidia-290.10-1.fc16.4.x86_64                       3/3
Installed: Â akmod-nvidia.x86_64 1:290.10-1.fc16.4Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
Dependency Installed: Â xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.x86_64 1:290.10-1.fc16Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.x86_64 1:290.10-1.fc16 Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â [root@JesusChrist ~]# *nvidia* bash: nvidiaisbroken.te: command not found...
[ [root@JesusChrist ~]# lsmod | grep nouveau nouveau              754554 3 ttm                   61533 1 nouveau drm_kms_helper        30277 1 nouveau drm                  213647 5 nouveau,ttm,drm_kms_helper i2c_algo_bit           5572 1 nouveau i2c_core              28203 5 i2c_i801,nouveau,drm_kms_helper,drm,i2c_algo_bit mxm_wmi                1743 1 nouveau video                 12388 1 nouveau [root@JesusChrist ~]# lsmod | grep nvidia [root@JesusChrist ~]#
-- Lawrence Graves All things are workable but don't all things work.
you'll need to disable nouveau (rdblacklist=nouveau on your kernel line in grub/grub2) and/or create a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf file with the contents being:
# RPM Fusion blacklist for nouveau driver - you need to run as root: # dracut -f /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r) # if nouveau is loaded despite this file. blacklist nouveau
and then reboot to have the akmod build the nvidia driver and modprobe it in for use.
Kevin
Lawrence Graves <lgraves95 <at> gmail.com> writes:
From what I am observing, there is nothing wrong with the nvidia drivers and there is nothing wrong with my nvidia card and there is nothing wrong with my monitor. What I see happening is after installing the nvidia drivers, there is no instructions given to install the nvidia drivers. It is not seeing anything to install or run on. Where ever this has to happen there lies the problem. I don't know who's problem it is.-- Lawrence Graves All things are workable but don't all things work. <at> gmail.com>
From reading the thread I gather you're using F16 with akmod-nvidia from
Rpmfusion, but I couldn't tell whether your system was fully updated. This bug
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=748069
was fixed by updates to selinux-policy* and libsepol.
On 12/16/2011 01:19 PM, Andre Robatino wrote:
Lawrence Graves<lgraves95<at> gmail.com> writes:
From what I am observing, there is nothing wrong with the nvidia drivers and there is nothing wrong with my nvidia card and there is nothing wrong with my monitor. What I see happening is after installing the nvidia drivers, there is no instructions given to install the nvidia drivers. It is not seeing anything to install or run on. Where ever this has to happen there lies the problem. I don't know who's problem it is.-- Lawrence Graves All things are workable but don't all things work.<at> gmail.com>From reading the thread I gather you're using F16 with akmod-nvidia from Rpmfusion, but I couldn't tell whether your system was fully updated. This bug
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=748069
was fixed by updates to selinux-policy* and libsepol.
Thank you. My system is up to date.
On 12/16/2011 01:37 PM, Claude Jones wrote:
On 12/16/2011 03:29 PM, Lawrence Graves wrote:
Thank you. My system is up to date.
please post the results of this command: lspci | grep nVidia
There were no results. I am using the nouveau drivers because I am not having any success with the installation of the nvidia drivers. Everyone has super trying to help and I want to say thank you.
On 12/16/2011 3:42 PM, Lawrence Graves wrote:
On 12/16/2011 01:37 PM, Claude Jones wrote:
On 12/16/2011 03:29 PM, Lawrence Graves wrote:
Thank you. My system is up to date.
please post the results of this command: lspci | grep nVidia
There were no results. I am using the nouveau drivers because I am not having any success with the installation of the nvidia drivers. Everyone has super trying to help and I want to say thank you. -- Lawrence Graves All things are workable but don't all things work.
OK - just post the results of "lspci"
On 12/16/2011 01:50 PM, Claude Jones wrote:
On 12/16/2011 3:42 PM, Lawrence Graves wrote:
On 12/16/2011 01:37 PM, Claude Jones wrote:
On 12/16/2011 03:29 PM, Lawrence Graves wrote:
Thank you. My system is up to date.
please post the results of this command: lspci | grep nVidia
There were no results. I am using the nouveau drivers because I am not having any success with the installation of the nvidia drivers. Everyone has super trying to help and I want to say thank you. -- Lawrence Graves All things are workable but don't all things work.
OK - just post the results of "lspci"
I did. Here is copy of my xorg.conf. xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-uninstalled. # nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig # nvidia-xconfig: version 290.10 (mockbuild@) Wed Nov 23 22:25:15 CET 2011
# RPM Fusion - nvidia-xorg.conf #
Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" Screen "Default Screen" 0 0 InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" EndSection
Section "InputDevice" # generated from data in "/etc/sysconfig/keyboard" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "keyboard" Option "XkbLayout" "us" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" EndSection
Section "InputDevice" # generated from default Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection
Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "nvidia" EndSection
Section "Screen" Identifier "Default Screen" Device "Videocard0" SubSection "Display" Modes "nvidia-auto-select" EndSubSection EndSection
On 12/16/2011 01:37 PM, Claude Jones wrote:
On 12/16/2011 03:29 PM, Lawrence Graves wrote:
Thank you. My system is up to date.
please post the results of this command: lspci | grep nVidia
[root@JesusChrist ~]# lspci | grep nVidia 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G71 [Quadro FX 2500M] (rev a1) [
On 12/16/2011 3:49 PM, Lawrence Graves wrote:
On 12/16/2011 01:37 PM, Claude Jones wrote:
On 12/16/2011 03:29 PM, Lawrence Graves wrote:
Thank you. My system is up to date.
please post the results of this command: lspci | grep nVidia
[root@JesusChrist ~]# lspci | grep nVidia 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G71 [Quadro FX 2500M] (rev a1) [ -- Lawrence Graves All things are workable but don't all things work.
sometimes, we second-guess ourselves - I just wanted to be sure you'd picked the correct nVidia driver to try to install, and upon checking, you have been trying to install the 290 which is correct:
From the driver page on the nVidia website for your laptop video card: Linux x64 (AMD64/EM64T) Display Driver Version: 290.10
On Monday 19 December 2011 18:32:56 Kevin Martin wrote:
From the driver page on the nVidia website for your laptop video card: Linux x64 (AMD64/EM64T) Display Driver Version: 290.10
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):
[ 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)
IIRC, in one of the previous incarnations of this particular thread, someone somewhere mentioned that this is actually a bug in the version 290 of the nVidia drivers. I remember looking at the bugreport to nVidia (lost the link, sorry...), and it was recognized as a bug and also closed as FIXED by nVidia. Of course, the new version of the driver with this fix is yet to be released by nVidia, and in the meantime users that are being hit by this were advised to downgrade to version 280.
The problem was that nobody on the list could walk Lawrence through the downgrading process (as you have probably found out, it's not exactly a thing a newbie would be able to do easily).
Going back to the 280.13 version fixed this. We also added the following to the xorg.conf file (again, don't know if we needed this but it was suggested in a forum entry on another forum and we tried it *before* not trying it and since the driver worked after this we didn't try to revert this):
Section "ServerFlags" Option "AIGLX" "on" Option "ignoreABI" EndSection
The AIGLX option is a good thing if it works, keep it. I wouldn't know about the ignoreABI option, but maybe it is necessary for the downgraded driver.
Lawrence should keep in mind that he should update his driver to the latest version as soon as it comes out of nVidia, and that the issue he is having is probably going to go away on its own... ;-) In the meantime, he should keep using the 280 driver, and probably keep running the current version of the kernel, until the new driver arrives.
Best, :-) Marko
On 12/19/2011 08:01 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
On Monday 19 December 2011 18:32:56 Kevin Martin wrote:
From the driver page on the nVidia website for your laptop video card: Linux x64 (AMD64/EM64T) Display Driver Version: 290.10
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):
[ 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)
IIRC, in one of the previous incarnations of this particular thread, someone somewhere mentioned that this is actually a bug in the version 290 of the nVidia drivers. I remember looking at the bugreport to nVidia (lost the link, sorry...), and it was recognized as a bug and also closed as FIXED by nVidia. Of course, the new version of the driver with this fix is yet to be released by nVidia, and in the meantime users that are being hit by this were advised to downgrade to version 280.
The problem was that nobody on the list could walk Lawrence through the downgrading process (as you have probably found out, it's not exactly a thing a newbie would be able to do easily).
Going back to the 280.13 version fixed this. We also added the following to the xorg.conf file (again, don't know if we needed this but it was suggested in a forum entry on another forum and we tried it *before* not trying it and since the driver worked after this we didn't try to revert this):
Section "ServerFlags" Option "AIGLX" "on" Option "ignoreABI" EndSection
The AIGLX option is a good thing if it works, keep it. I wouldn't know about the ignoreABI option, but maybe it is necessary for the downgraded driver.
Lawrence should keep in mind that he should update his driver to the latest version as soon as it comes out of nVidia, and that the issue he is having is probably going to go away on its own... ;-) In the meantime, he should keep using the 280 driver, and probably keep running the current version of the kernel, until the new driver arrives.
Best, :-) Marko
Darn, I missed the bugreport on downgrading to the 280 version, that would have made the time spent *hours* less. In any case, he's working now and we discussed going forward when a new driver comes out. While I tend to agree with going with the newest driver I will, as I typically do with anybody when discussing these sorts of things, advocate letting *others* be the guinea pigs and wait to see if anything shakes out after it's released before upgrading to it. He has a working system now and I wouldn't want to see that go away with another buggy driver.
Thanks for the info Marko. I'll have to check more carefully in the future.
Kevin
kernel, until the new driver arrives.
Best, :-) Marko
Darn, I missed the bugreport on downgrading to the 280 version, that would have made the time spent *hours* less. In any case, he's working now and we discussed going forward when a new driver comes out. While I tend to agree with going with the newest driver I will, as I typically do with anybody when discussing these sorts of things, advocate letting *others* be the guinea pigs and wait to see if anything shakes out after it's released before upgrading to it. He has a working system now and I wouldn't want to see that go away with another buggy driver.
Thanks for the info Marko. I'll have to check more carefully in the future.
Kevin
On another note, Lawrence informed me that his video stopped working again this morning after a reboot. However, he found that nVidia had a new 275.43 driver out as of 12/14 that, it says, supports his card (mine too for that matter). He's installed it (from the nVidia website, not rpmfusion) and has working X again.
Kevin
On 20 December 2011 00:32, Kevin Martin kevintm@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.
On 12/20/2011 12:41 AM, Ian Malone wrote:
On 20 December 2011 00:32, Kevin Martinkevintm@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.:-)
On 12/16/2011 01:19 PM, Andre Robatino wrote:
Lawrence Graves<lgraves95<at> gmail.com> writes:
From what I am observing, there is nothing wrong with the nvidia drivers and there is nothing wrong with my nvidia card and there is nothing wrong with my monitor. What I see happening is after installing the nvidia drivers, there is no instructions given to install the nvidia drivers. It is not seeing anything to install or run on. Where ever this has to happen there lies the problem. I don't know who's problem it is.-- Lawrence Graves All things are workable but don't all things work.<at> gmail.com>From reading the thread I gather you're using F16 with akmod-nvidia from Rpmfusion, but I couldn't tell whether your system was fully updated. This bug
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=748069
was fixed by updates to selinux-policy* and libsepol.
Does anyone have to capability of remotely accessing my laptop? You have my permission. Just let me know what to do.
On 12/16/2011 02:31 PM, Lawrence Graves wrote:
On 12/16/2011 01:19 PM, Andre Robatino wrote:
Lawrence Graves <lgraves95 <at> gmail.com> writes:
From what I am observing, there is nothing wrong with the nvidia drivers and there is nothing wrong with my nvidia card and there is nothing wrong with my monitor. What I see happening is after installing the nvidia drivers, there is no instructions given to install the nvidia drivers. It is not seeing anything to install or run on. Where ever this has to happen there lies the problem. I don't know who's problem it is.-- Lawrence Graves All things are workable but don't all things work. <at> gmail.com>From reading the thread I gather you're using F16 with akmod-nvidia from
Rpmfusion, but I couldn't tell whether your system was fully updated. This bug
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=748069
was fixed by updates to selinux-policy* and libsepol.
Does anyone have to capability of remotely accessing my laptop? You have my permission. Just let me know what to do.
Lawrence Graves All things are workable but don't all things work.
Lawrence,
I could ssh to your machine if your router/firewall has a something setup to allow me to connect on a port and forward it to your laptop. You would need to setup a rule to allow me to connect on some high port of your choice and then forward it to port 22 on your machine. If you do this you should shut down iptables on your machine. If you want to try this it would need to be probably tomorrow however as I've got to run and won't be available for the rest of today.
Kevin
On 12/16/2011 02:01 PM, Kevin Martin wrote:
On 12/16/2011 02:31 PM, Lawrence Graves wrote:
On 12/16/2011 01:19 PM, Andre Robatino wrote:
Lawrence Graves<lgraves95<at> gmail.com> writes:
From what I am observing, there is nothing wrong with the nvidia drivers and there is nothing wrong with my nvidia card and there is nothing wrong with my monitor. What I see happening is after installing the nvidia drivers, there is no instructions given to install the nvidia drivers. It is not seeing anything to install or run on. Where ever this has to happen there lies the problem. I don't know who's problem it is.-- Lawrence Graves All things are workable but don't all things work.<at> gmail.com>From reading the thread I gather you're using F16 with akmod-nvidia from
Rpmfusion, but I couldn't tell whether your system was fully updated. This bug
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=748069
was fixed by updates to selinux-policy* and libsepol.
Does anyone have to capability of remotely accessing my laptop? You have my permission. Just let me know what to do. -- Lawrence Graves All things are workable but don't all things work.
Lawrence,
I could ssh to your machine if your router/firewall has a something setup to allow me to connect on a port and forward it to your laptop. You would need to setup a rule to allow me to connect on some high port of your choice and then forward it to port 22 on your machine. If you do this you should shut down iptables on your machine. If you want to try this it would need to be probably tomorrow however as I've got to run and won't be available for the rest of today.
Kevin
I will be available after 1:00 pm. I have a Netgear WNDR3700 dual router with a guest access capability if that will help. You will have to instruct me as to how to make it work. It will be a lesson for me and thank again for your concern in this stressful matter to me.
On 12/16/2011 01:33 PM, Lawrence Graves wrote:
I will be available after 1:00 pm. I have a Netgear WNDR3700 dual router with a guest access capability if that will help. You will have to instruct me as to how to make it work. It will be a lesson for me and thank again for your concern in this stressful matter to me.
I'd like to suggest that both of you take this off-list because the details are very much none of our business.
On 12/16/2011 03:00 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 12/16/2011 01:33 PM, Lawrence Graves wrote:
I will be available after 1:00 pm. I have a Netgear WNDR3700 dual router with a guest access capability if that will help. You will have to instruct me as to how to make it work. It will be a lesson for me and thank again for your concern in this stressful matter to me.
I'd like to suggest that both of you take this off-list because the details are very much none of our business.
Sorry sir did not mean to afiend anyone.
On 12/16/2011 04:40 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 12/16/2011 02:22 PM, Lawrence Graves wrote:
Sorry sir did not mean to afiend anyone.
It's not a matter of offense. This list is public and I don't think you want to be telling everybody on it how to connect to your computer.
Yep, I agree. I had actually meant to reply to him with the offer but messed up and replied to the list. We'll take this offline this afternoon.
Kevin
On Fri, 2011-12-16 at 20:19 +0000, Andre Robatino wrote:
Lawrence Graves <lgraves95 <at> gmail.com> writes:
From what I am observing, there is nothing wrong with the nvidia drivers and there is nothing wrong with my nvidia card and there is nothing wrong with my monitor. What I see happening is after installing the nvidia drivers, there is no instructions given to install the nvidia drivers. It is not seeing anything to install or run on. Where ever this has to happen there lies the problem. I don't know who's problem it is.-- Lawrence Graves All things are workable but don't all things work. <at> gmail.com>From reading the thread I gather you're using F16 with akmod-nvidia from
Rpmfusion, but I couldn't tell whether your system was fully updated. This bug
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=748069
was fixed by updates to selinux-policy* and libsepol.
Lawrence-
Have you tried booting you machine with the nVidia drivers installed and with an external monitor attached to your laptop?
I just installed the nVidia drivers on my Thinkpad T61 this week and had to play some games get the displays working correctly. Not quite your issue but no so dissimilar either. Namely I had to tweak nvidia-xconfig to recognize the laptop monitor and external monitor (via a docking station) and overlay the X screens. I had to disable twin-view as well.
Just a thought as all is now working well (nVidia wise) for me.
CHarlie
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