hello friends I am using fedora 7 with nvidia 7100 GS graphics and amd athlon 64 3000+ and an ati motherboard...
After i installed the correct nvidia drivers(from the site)..i found that my system freezes completely wen i use desktop effects or even some screensavers 0n kde ..and it frezzes badly...even ctrl+alt+backspacee doesnt work i have to reset comp by the reset button any solution???
pls help me...
here is my xorg config



# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder3) Wed Jun 13 18:39:30 PDT 2007

# Xorg configuration created by pyxf86config

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

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "extmod"
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"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 30.0 - 110.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 150.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nvidia"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

Hi,

so Which Driver did you exactly use? The correct Name is:"please answer here"
Is glxinfo | grep render show something like that..
?
What about the Mainboard can you be a little bit more precise ? ATI Board ... what is this?

Your xorg.conf seems correct so far.

But you also could visit this page here
LIVNA
Download the http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-7.rpm
that will be installed as repositroy in /etc/yum.repo.d

Next issue the command
Then you'll have the kernel module from livna installed instead of the one of NVIDIA.

Good Luck,

sorry my mistake its an msi motherboard RS482M4/RX480M4 series + SB450 chipset based
The system works perfectly with windows but with fedora 7 it freezes very often...like beryl runs for 2 mins and then everything is frozen...do i need to uninstall this current driver???(if yes how to do that?)
I installed the following driver NVIDIA-Linux-x86-100.14.11-pkg1.run

after doing glxinfo | grep render it shows the following wat could be the error??
direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce 7100 GS/PCI/SSE2/3DNOW!
GL_NVX_conditional_render, GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap, GL_SGIS_texture_lod,

after doing glxinfo | grep render it shows the following wat could be the error??
direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce 7100 GS/PCI/SSE2/3DNOW!
GL_NVX_conditional_render, GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap, GL_SGIS_texture_lod,

which kernel is loaded on your fedora 7
and which fedora did you install 64_x86 or i386_x86 ?

Maybe there is a service running thats crashes the system.
turn off all unnessesary services using the "chkconfig" command
If turning of services you don't need to have still nothing change then
try with the install of the kmod-nvidia driver from livna. You don't have to uninstall the other.

btw. Did you check the /var/log/messages if maybe any hints are there upon the problem?

i reinstalled the driver as you told but now i get another error while startup
that module nvidia.ko not found ....nvidia.ko for kernel 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 not found and also says that nvidia driver will ot be enabled until it is found.
now the system crashes less often but its still there..
output of uname -rm =2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 i686
desktop effects are working even if nvidia drivers are not enabled but glxinfo |grep render shows the same output as above(in the previous post)...what could be the problem...I'm using the base kernel of fedora 7 since xen doesnt seem to work for my pppoe and soundcard
Should i go for a complete reinstall?? is it badly screwed??

No reinstall... of course this is a solution and after reinstall right at the beginning use livna drivers
But so we don't learn something :-)

1. try install the kernel module only
- lsmod | grep nvidia (nothing shown ?)
- then modprobe nvidia (error ? )
if it doesn't help then

2.
So try to uninstall the driver from nvidia's site using the nvidia installer
cause I think it dislikes the combination of the livna's one.
as root
don't give up

but if you like to s*** on it. And you want to reinstall then
backup your important data.
And use livna as repo right from the beginning as nvidia driver source.