Fedora 11, installing GFX card driver

Vask · 07-23-2009, 02:56 AM

I got through most of the installer but i received this error:

ERROR: unable to find the kernel source tree for the currently running kernel. Please make sure you have installed the kernel source files for your kernel and tht they are properly configured; on red hat linux systems, for example, be sure you have the 'kernel-source' or 'kernel-devel' rpm installed. if you know the correct kernel source files are installed, you may specify the kernel source path with the '--kernel-source-path' command line option"

Any ideas?

jdkaye · 07-23-2009, 03:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vask

I got through most of the installer but i received this error:

ERROR: unable to find the kernel source tree for the currently running kernel. Please make sure you have installed the kernel source files for your kernel and tht they are properly configured; on red hat linux systems, for example, be sure you have the 'kernel-source' or 'kernel-devel' rpm installed. if you know the correct kernel source files are installed, you may specify the kernel source path with the '--kernel-source-path' command line option"

Any ideas?

Any ideas? Sure, do what it says. Install your kernel source.
cheers,
jdk

John VV · 07-23-2009, 03:45 PM

with the .run installer
I DO RECOMMEND that a new fedora user use the kmod-nvidia.rpm driver in the rpmfusion repo
for the .run nvidia driver you will need to have installed the kernel source and gcc compiuler

Code:

yum group install "Administration Tools" "Development Tools" "Development Libraries" 
yum install kernel-devel kernel-headers

make your life easer and install rpmfusion and install the driver this way

Code:

su -
yum install kmod-nvidia

Vask · 07-23-2009, 08:13 PM

i installed the kmod-nvidia driver, ran the nvidia-xconfig command, then rebooted. System wont load up now. How would i uninstall that driver so i can get back to level 5? and/or how would i fix this issue with the driver?

Edit, only my PAE system wont load up. On the other one however, the driver still doesnt allow 3d accelerated games ect, and did not fix the alignment issue.

John VV · 07-24-2009, 02:27 AM

Quote:

Edit, only my PAE system wont load up

is this computer a 64 bit machine with OVER 4 gig of ram ( running fedora 64 bit or fedora 32 bit )
or a 32 bit box with 4 gig's of ram ( running fedora 32 bit )

why do you need the PAE kernel

for the 64 bit version of fedora 11 this MUST be added to the xorg.conf

Code:

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

knudfl · 07-24-2009, 02:40 AM

Fedora 11.
'uname -r' : 2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i686.PAE

Having the 'rpmfusion' repo's
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/...ble.noarch.rpm
and
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfr...ble.noarch.rpm
and just doing the one command
# yum install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia
got these packages installed

Code:

[knudfl@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa --last | grep nvidia
kmod-nvidia-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i686.PAE-185.18.14-1.fc11 tir 21 jul 2009 19:37:26 CEST
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-185.18.14-2.fc11     tir 21 jul 2009 19:34:51 CEST
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-185.18.14-2.fc11          tir 21 jul 2009 19:34:42 CEST
akmod-nvidia-185.18.14-1.fc11                 tir 21 jul 2009 19:34:41 CEST
... and ...
livna-config-display-0.0.23-1.fc11            tir 21 jul 2009 19:34:36 CEST

And the /etc/X11/xorg.conf is very simple

Code:

# Xorg configuration created by livna-config-display

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

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

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Videocard0"
	Driver      "nvidia"
	Option	    "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
EndSection

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

The important package is the "akmod", taking care of set up.
( At next reboot.)
.....