I followed several guides and How-to's trying to get my NVIDIA drivers working, including this one linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=259917&highlight=nvidia+fedora[/url]

I am able to follow and complete every step in this guide and others, but when I edit my xorg.conf file and try to start Xserver again, I get a black/stand-by screen.

Any suggestions?

in my xorg log this is what's found :
1. (EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (NVIDIA X driver not found)

2. Symbol __glXgetActiveScreen from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is unresolved!
Symbol __glXgetActiveScreen from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is unresolved!

Can you post the contents of your entire /etc/X11/xorg.conf file please.

I hope you understand that this is not my current xorg.conf file, as that would result in me in not being able to startx. My current xorg.conf has the line Load "dri" under section module, and Driver "nv" under section device.

xorg.conf




# XFree86 4 configuration created by pyxf86config

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"

# RgbPath is the location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally
# no need to change the default.
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
FontPath "unix/:7100"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "fbdevhw"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
# Option "Xleds" "1 2 3"
# To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.
# Option "XkbDisable"
# To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
# lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S.
# keyboard, you will probably want to use:
# Option "XkbModel" "pc102"
# If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
# Option "XkbModel" "microsoft"
#
# Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
# For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# or:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
#
# If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
# control keys, use:
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps"
# Or if you just want both to be control, use:
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"
#
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us_intl"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor 1024x768"
HorizSync 31.5 - 57.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 70.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce 4 (generic)"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
Modes "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Group 0
Mode 0666
EndSection

That xorg.conf looks fine, and I looked the instructions you linked, they definately will work. What video card and monitor do you have?

hey,

I have an NVIDIA GeForce Ti 4600
and a LG Flatron 915+ (unrecognized by FC3 )

Is this your monitor?

http://www.lge.com/catalog/prodmodel...&model=NOTHING

If so, your horizontal and vertical refresh rates and recommended resolution are incorrect in xorg.conf.

Recommended resolution is 1280x1024 @ 85Hz

Horizontal refresh rate should be 30-98kHz

Vertical refresh rate should be 50-160Hz

You currently have it set for -

ModelName "Monitor 1024x768"
HorizSync 31.5 - 57.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 70.0

In addition, these errors confuse me;

Symbol __glXgetActiveScreen from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is unresolved!
Symbol __glXgetActiveScreen from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is unresolved!

You are told to disable DRI in xorg.conf as part of the nvidia driver install, so if you did that why are you getting dri lib errors?

I'm betting your major problem is the incorrect refresh rates set.

I had a similar problem but with different hardware (FC3, Geforce FX 6800LE and an Iiyama monitor).

It turned out the correct monitor was not defined in the display settings (system-config-display) which prevented me from setting the proper addressability.

I also got the

Symbol __glXgetActiveScreen from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is unresolved!
Symbol __glXgetActiveScreen from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is unresolved!

error in my /var/log/Xorg.0.log. I thought I had removed 'Load "dri"' from my xorg.conf, but when I checked, it was still there for some reason. I removed it, and the unresolved error above went away.

Thanks for the pointer, Harryc! :o)

Now I just need to figure out how to configure my Audigy 2 card... :o/