Can't install nvidia drivers

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Fri Dec 16 16:27:27 UTC 2011



Am 16.12.2011 17:23, schrieb Lawrence Graves:
> 
> 
> On 12/16/2011 09:17 AM, linux guy wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Lawrence Graves <lgraves95 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 12/16/2011 08:52 AM, linux guy wrote:
>>>
>>> The above assuming you are running F16...  I haven't followed your
>>> thread closely.  Sorry.
>>>
>>> Yes. I can not get a graphical screen back once I install nvidia drivers so
>>> I am unable to give you anymore information.
>>>
>> ctrl-alt F2, F3... etc. will get you a command line session.
>>
>> Have you run this ?
>> mv /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r)-nouveau.img
>> dracut /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)
> Linux guy:
> Yes.  After I doing all you have ask me to do, I am still not able to get the nvidia drivers to work. Could I send
> you a picture of my screen to your private email address as it will be to large to send to this email address.
> The picture shows you what I get after installation and reboot.

jesus christ you have to explain "I did a runlevel drop to 3 now I can't
get rpm -qa | grep nvidia* to work." first because it seems you are
doing randomly things without understanding what they are supposed to do

you have to make sure that the "nouveau" drivers are not get loaded
or unload them manually to test anything

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