NVIDIA driver *taints* kernel???

Marc Schwartz MSchwartz at MedAnalytics.com
Wed Jan 19 05:20:19 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 07:10 +0200, Chadley Wilson wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 21:34 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> > Steven Pasternak writes:
> > 
> > > I use fedora 3 on an athlon xp and an nvidia geforce fx 5200. I go to install 
> > > the Nvidia driver version 1.0-6629 and during the installation at the end it 
> > > says that the license 'Nvidia' taints the kernel, but it still continues and 
> > > seems to work. If I boot in runlevel 5, though, it gets to the part where it 
> > > starts X (right at the beginning) and X doesn't start - It freezes. I 
> > > uninstall the driver and use the 'nv' driver and it works. I have to compile 
> > > the kernel module because it can't find one at the nvidia site. When I'm in 
> > > runlevel 3 I can run the accelerated graphics until I shut down, then I have 
> > > to boot runlevel 3 and recompile the module again. Any advise?
> > 
> > Advice: only use graphics cards that provide and support open source 
> > drivers.
> Look I am no expert either, but it the freezing is probably just the
> agpgart and is easy to work around.
> 
> in the driver section of the xoerg.conf just add a line 
> Option "NvAGP" "1"
> 
> see the nvidia's README near the bottom of the doc.


Also, in terms of the need to re-compile at each boot, see the
following:

http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/udev/

and look towards the bottom of the page for the nVidia instructions.

HTH,

Marc Schwartz





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