nvidia driver cause Fedora 6 to hang when X windows trys to start.
 

My Asus motherboard has a built-in nvidia video card. I loaded FC 6 from dvd and X windows runs fine with the default driver "nv". I downloaded the nvidia driver utility from www.nvidia.com built a driver. When I start X, my machine locks up. Then I tried to get a precompiled driver from livia-repo. After sucessful installation via yum, the same thing happened.

Ideas?

Do you have errors written to your log file for X? In /var/log. And post the relavent parts of your xorg.conf file. Perhaps it has been setup incorrectly.

From Xorg.0.log

only Warning or Error is-
...
(WW) NVIDIA(0): 32-bit ARGB GLX visuals are only supported in depth 24.
...
last line of Xorg.0.log is-
...
FreeFontPath: FPE "unix/:7100" refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing.



From xorg.conf

# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"


Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
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 "Unknown monitor"
HorizSync 31.5 - 60.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 75.0
ModeLine "1024x768_82.00" 90.3 1024 1088 1200 1376 768 769 772 805 -hsync +vsync
Option "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"

# disable hardware mouse
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge"
Option "HWcursor" "false"
Option "RenderAccel" "1"
Option "TVStandard" "NTSC-M"
Option "ConnectedMonitor" "TV"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
EndSection

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

Section "DRI"
Group 0
Mode 0666
EndSection

If you change Driver "nvidia" to "nv" will it boot? If so you'll loose your hardware acceleration, but at least you can get back into X till you figure out whats wrong.

If we base our troubleshooting on this error, then we have couple of options in the xorg.conf.

1. Change DefaultDepth 16 to DefaultDepth 24, Depth 16 to Depth 24

and/or

2. Change Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True" to Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "False"

I did change the driver to "nv" and X windows does work. My goal is to set up a Mythtv box. Therefore I really want the nvidia driver to work.

I will try the other suggestions tonight.

Don't know if this helps, but I using my Tv in a Dualview config and it works sweet

This is my Xorg.conf file.
I have a Asus A7V8X-X Athanlon 1.3Ghz, GeForce 6200 256mb and I have my TV setup as my second monitor.


# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Multihead layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" LeftOf "Screen1"
Screen 1 "Screen1" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
Option "Xinerama" "off"
Option "Clone" "off"
EndSection

Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"

Identifier "Monitor0"
ModelName "Monitor 1280x1024"
HorizSync 31.5 - 79.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 90.0
Option "EDID" "false"
Option "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor1"
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"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard1"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "Videocard Vendor"
BoardName "nVidia Corporation NV44A [GeForce 6200]"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Screen 1
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen1"
Device "Videocard1"
Monitor "Monitor1"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubSection
EndSection

No luck with changing either of the above.

I'll try some combinations that defiantone has suggested.

No luck with selected items form defiantone's xorg.conf file.

This may be interesting -
With the driver "nvidia" set, my computer would lock up if I tried to run . When I changed to driver "nv" I was able to run and select the "nvidia" driver. Once I tried to restart X, it locked up again. :mad:

More details about hardware:
Motherboard: Asus A8N-VM CSM
onboard graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 6150 GPU
Chipset: Northbridge

Any more ideas out there?

There has been allot of nvidia complaints tonight, most have been related to installing kmod-nvidia via yum which apparently installs the latest version matching last kernel update just recently released, I can't remember what the version is but you should apply all updates before issuing command:

yum install kmod-nvidia

Remove kmod-nvidia first with command:

yum remove kmod-nvidia

Then apply udates before installing kmod-nvidia via yum.

Try using the 96xx version.

It might help, might not, but try it.

I uninstalled kmod-nvidia and then installed kmod-nvidia-96xx.

Did a reboot, and tried to start X. Same problem: X windows attempts to start and the monitor goes blank, computer locks up. I can't even to go to a different shell (Ctrl-Alt-F2).

Thanks for the suggestion, still not very happy with this situation.

I was experiencing the same problem with FC5 and thought FC6 might help but both releases behave the same way.

Is there any way to get more error information from X? I have already used to try and get more info. Is there any sort of single step mode to loading X?

All ideas are welcome.:scratch:

I FIXED IT. :)

Turns out it was one of the options in the Device section

When I commented it out, X loaded just fine.

By the way, I don't have a TV connected, I have a monitor. Don't remember how that option made it into my xorg.conf file, but it's gone now. :)

Thanks to all that replied.

The solution posted by voodoo101, below, worked for me Thanks.

yum remove kmod-nvidia -y
yum install kmod-nvidia-96xx -y