Re: How to verify nvidia drivers working

[steve]

Per Michael's advice, I ran glxinfo.  Result:

Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0" (printed 5x)

Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual or fbconfig

Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0" (printed like 50x)

Segmentation fault (core dumped)

I guess that means I don't have the drivers installed after all :-)

What to do?

Steve

How to verify nvidia drivers working

[Chris Smart]

2010/1/8 steve :
> I guess that means I don’t have the drivers installed after all :-)

First, make sure you have it installed correctly.

If you are running 64 bit and have added the RPMFusion repositories, then run:
su -c 'yum install kmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.x86_64'

If you're running 32 bit, then add the RPMFusion repo and run:
su -c 'yum install kmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs'

This will install required libs and blacklist nouveau driver.

If you had kernel based modesetting enabled, then re-build your
initial ram disk:
su -c 'dracut -f /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)'

Update your modules database:
su -c 'depmod -ae'

Create an nvidia xorg.conf:
su -c 'nvidia-xconfig'

Reboot.

-c

How to verify nvidia drivers working

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 09:56 +1100, Chris Smart wrote:
> 2010/1/8 steve :
> > I guess that means I don’t have the drivers installed after all :-)
>
> First, make sure you have it installed correctly.
>
> If you are running 64 bit and have added the RPMFusion repositories, then run:
> su -c 'yum install kmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.x86_64'
>
> If you're running 32 bit, then add the RPMFusion repo and run:
> su -c 'yum install kmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs'
>
> This will install required libs and blacklist nouveau driver.
>
> If you had kernel based modesetting enabled, then re-build your
> initial ram disk:
> su -c 'dracut -f /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)'

No need to rebuild.  I just installed akmod-nvidia (the 64-bit one) and
added  "rdblacklist=nouveau" to the kernel line in /etc/grub.conf.  You
can add "nomodeset", but I didn't need to.  This is a 64-bit F12.
> Update your modules database:
> su -c 'depmod -ae'
>
> Create an nvidia xorg.conf:
> su -c 'nvidia-xconfig'

Didn't need to do these either.
> Reboot.
>
> -c

How to verify nvidia drivers working

[Chris Smart]

2010/1/8 Matthew Saltzman :
> No need to rebuild.  I just installed akmod-nvidia (the 64-bit one) and
> added  "rdblacklist=nouveau" to the kernel line in /etc/grub.conf.  You
> can add "nomodeset", but I didn't need to.  This is a 64-bit F12.

You could do that, but it's already blacklisted in the system. When
you get a kernel update it will not be included. Problem is that it's
included in the current initramfs, so if you reboot it'll be loaded.
Doing either will work, but really Yum should probably do this after
it blacklists nouveau.
> > Update your modules database:
> > su -c 'depmod -ae'
> >
> > Create an nvidia xorg.conf:
> > su -c 'nvidia-xconfig'
>
> Didn't need to do these either.

Maybe not, but it covers all bases, just in case. If he doesn't do
this and he can't load the module on a reboot, then we'll waste time
trying to find out why. Just doing it makes sure it'll work :-)

-c