Problems after installing nvidia kmod
Kevin Fenzi
kevin at scrye.com
Wed Jan 20 20:09:53 UTC 2010
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:32:13 -0700
Paolo Galtieri <pgaltieri at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yesterday I installed F12 on one of my systems. The install and
> update went fine and everything was running fine. Since I have an
> Nvidia cras in my system I thought I would install the nvidia driver
> from the rpmfusion repo. Here is my Nvidia card info:
>
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8500 GT
> (rev a1)
>
> I installed the following packages, ran nvidia-xconfig and rebooted:
>
> nvidia-xconfig-1.0-1.fc12.x86_64
> nvidia-settings-1.0-3.2.fc12.x86_64
> livna-config-display-0.0.23-1.fc11.noarch
> kmod-nvidia-2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64-190.42-1.fc12.9.x86_64
> kmod-nvidia-190.42-1.fc12.9.x86_64
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-190.42-5.fc12.x86_64
>
> When the system came up I did not get a login prompt, just a black
> screen with the cursor blinking in the upper left. I did a
> Ctrl-Alt-F2 to get to a console window and did an init 3 followed by
> an init 5 to restart the server. This is what I got:
>
> Applying Intel CPU microcode update: Starting monitoring for VG
> vg_jackstraw: 2 logical volume(s) in volume group "vg_jackstraw"
> monitored [ OK ]
> Checking for module nvidia.ko: [ OK ]
> Enabling the nvidia driver: /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions: line 520:
> 3759 Segmentation fault (core dumped) "$@"
> [FAILED]
Yeah, there are manual steps now needed. ;(
Please take a look at:
http://fedorasolved.org/video-solutions/nvidia-yum-kmod/
You basically have to rebuild your initramfs to blacklist the free
driver, and run a selinux command to allow the nvidia driver to work
with selinux enabled.
kevin
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