Where does the livna repository fit in with FC9?

[Jim Cornette]

Andrew Farris wrote:
> Jim Cornette wrote:
>> Andrew Farris wrote:
>>> Jim Cornette wrote:
>>>> I could not get either nv or nouveau to work for a 7400 NVidia, only 
>>>> the VESA would work.
>>>> So these drivers are supposed to work? Thanks for the info.
>>>
>>> Yes, both nv and nouveau should be working.  I can use either one 
>>> successfully with my fx5900xt agp card.
>>>
>>
>> Is there any special configuration file modification needed? I only 
>> seem to be able to work with vesa. The below contains information 
>> related to nvidia and nvidiafb but my results were the same before I 
>> installed the third party rpms. Interesting to know that they work 
>> though.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> 00:12.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 7000M 
>> (rev a2) (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
>>     Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 30ea
>>     Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- 
>> ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
>>     Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- 
>> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
>>     Latency: 0
>>     Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
>>     Region 0: Memory at f5000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
>>     Region 1: Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
>>     Region 3: Memory at f4000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
>>     Capabilities: <access denied>
>>     Kernel driver in use: nvidia
>>     Kernel modules: nvidiafb, nvidia
> 
> Looks like you've still got the nvidia driver loading, which you don't 
> want. Either get it uninstalled and all the kmod stuff removed from 
> livna, or blacklist it temporarily in modprobe.conf.  Just make sure if 
> you're trying to use nv or nouveau you don't have the nvidia module in 
> kernel at the time.  I'm assuming you just ran lspci while nvidia was 
> loaded, but its pointless to have that kernel module load at all right now.
> 
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation NV35 
> [GeForce FX 5900XT] [10de:0332] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
>     Flags: VGA palette snoop, 66MHz, medium devsel, IRQ 7
>     Memory at fc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
>     Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
>     Expansion ROM at fd000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
>     Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
>     Capabilities: [44] AGP version 3.0
>     Kernel modules: nvidiafb
> 

nv or nouveau both failed to load before I added nvidia third party 
nvidia drivers later. I booted up with the third party packages 
installed and manually edited the xorg.conf file trying nv, nouveau and 
finally trying vesa to get X running. Nvidia was contained in the 
xorg.conf file originally. Maybe the access denied for capabilities is 
the problem I am encountering.

I removed the third party items and knowing it should work try to see if 
I can get nv or nouveau to work. Knowing that they should work is 
helpful information. SELinux is suspect since access denied is mentioned 
for capabilities.

Jim