Can't install nvidia drivers

[Kevin Martin]

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>> Lawrence Graves All things are workable but don't all things work.
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>
> sometimes, we second-guess ourselves - I just wanted to be sure you'd picked the correct nVidia driver to try to install, and upon
> checking, you have been trying to install the 290 which is correct:
>
> From the driver page on the nVidia website for your laptop video card:
> Linux x64 (AMD64/EM64T) Display Driver
> Version: 290.10
>

So after working on this all afternoon with Lawrence, it turned out that we needed to fall back to the 280.13 version of the nVidia
akmod from F15 to get it to work.  With the 290.10 and the 285.05.09 we kept seeing this in the Xorg.5.log file (don't know why it
was creating the .5 log file but that's another problem for another time):

[    42.538] (**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling 2D acceleration
[    43.913] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to get supported display device(s)
[    43.933] (WW) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Failed to query OR info 0x24
[    43.935] (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU Quadro FX 2500M (G71GL) at PCI:1:0:0 (GPU-0)


Going back to the 280.13 version fixed this.  We also added the following to the xorg.conf file (again, don't know if we needed this
but it was suggested in a forum entry on another forum and we tried it *before* not trying it and since the driver worked after this
we didn't try to revert this):

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option        "AIGLX" "on"
    Option      "ignoreABI"
EndSection


Kevin