Help! - F12 Nvidia boot errors

[Gary Waters]

On 02/17/2010 12:42 PM, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 09:48 -0500, Gary Waters wrote:
>> Greetings from newbieland,
>>
>> I tend to fall behind and upgrade Fedora every 2-3 versions down the
>> line. I just installed F12, did some research on installing the nvida
>> drivers. I have uninstalled nouveau and kmod-nvidia is also not
>> installed. The proprietary nvidia driver appeared to install without any
>> diffulties and appears to be working in system/preferences/nvidia
>> x-server settings; however, I get the following bootup error messages:
>>
>> checking for module nvidia.ko in fc12: failed
>> nvidia.ko for kernel 2.6.31.12-174.2.19.fc12x86_64 was not found
>> the nvidia driver will not be enabled until one is found
>>
>> Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I've done a lot of googling and
>> experimenting. Could this have something to do with xorg.conf? I have
>> been reading so many different "solutions" that I'm beginning to feel
>> vapourlocked and would rather get advice here before I screw things up more.


> My advice would be to remove the nvidia-packaged drivers and install
> kmod-nvidia from rpmfusion.  That's worked reliably for me with recent
> versions.  Also added "rdblacklist=nouveau" to the kernel line
> in /etc/grub/conf.


I just tried the installation method here:

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=234595

It made no difference. I still get the error messages in the orange 
triangle at the login screen

Step 13 for this method is as follows:

13. $ cd /etc/X11 && vi xorg.conf
Add the following lines to the "Files" section:
ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers"
ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"

Would I need to modify anything there before uninstalling the nvidia and 
proceeding with Kmod? I assume this is the correct procedure for kmod:

http://fedorasolved.org/video-solutions/nvidia-yum-kmod