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I have installed the latest nvidia driver on Fedora Core 3 but each time I change my xorg.config to use the Nvidia driver, I get an error saying that no usable screens are found and "cannot load module nvidia". I have tried to run xorgconfig and it seems like it's not installed. I know I can use system-config-display but I am not too keen on it. How do I install which fedora package has xorgconfig?
well it works temporarily and when I reboot the PC the problem is still there. The system hangs when I try to use this driver, so I'm gonna see if a patched version of the old driver is available and try it.
Thanks a lot, I've finally got it working, but had to install a patched version of the 61111 drivers coz my system just hangs when it tries to use the latest ones. That line actually existed in /etc/modprobe.conf and not /etc/modules.conf. Thanks for your help, I really appreciate it.
hey, i've got 2 questions that seem to belong in this topic.
i'm having problems with installing the nvidia driver in FC3 also
1) when ur system is hanging on bootup at the "configuring kernel parameters" point, is there a way to fix this or do u hafta reinstall FC3?
2) where did u get the patched driver?
During the boot up, at OS selection, press 'A' (IIRC, to edit the grub line) and delete rhgb at the end of the line.. and continue booting..
This has to do with UDEV problem. And to permanently solve the problem.. check the solution above. Download the latest driver (6629) from NVIDIA.. you do not need to patch anything..
well 6629 is the one thats hanging my system at boot time and any other time I try and use X. The patched Nvidia driver that I have is 6111 thats been modified to work with kernel 2.6.9. I got it from this weblog.
And that was it... Worked like a charm... Thanks again!
Notes:
Do step 2 above as root, in the earlier post the prompt was a $ instead of a #. Giving these commands as any user other than root obviously won't work.
P.S. WIRAONE thanks for the grub "rhgb" tip, I was a second away from a reinstall.
Installed the 6629 drivers and used the commands from WIRAONE and everythings ok now. Nice one!
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