First off I have to say this site rocks L) ....

ok ive read million threads but due to my noobness I cant figure it out , I jus installed FC3 final test ( awsome so far ) I am trying to install the latest Nvidia Driver 1.0-6111 . for my FX 5200

I modified the runlevel to 3 in the inittab

then I did the export CC-gcc32 ( but dont know if it worked )

ran the install and got

WARNING: Your kernel was configured to include rivafb support as
a loadable kernel module.

The rivafb driver conflicts with the NVIDIA driver; the
NVIDIA kernel module will still be built and installed,
but be aware that the NVIDIA driver will not be able to
function properly if the rivafb module is loaded!

I read the you must put Rivabf on the blacklist for it to not autoload , do I do the before or after installing the driver ?

next I get

-> Kernel module compilation complete.
ERROR: Unable to load the kernel module 'nvidia.ko'. This is most likely
because the kernel module was built using the wrong kernel source files.
Please make sure you have installed the kernel source files for your
kernel; on Red Hat Linux systems, for example, be sure you have the
'kernel-source' rpm installed. If you know the correct kernel source
files are installed, you may specify the kernel source path with the
'--kernel-source-path' commandline option.
-> Kernel module load error: insmod: error inserting './usr/src/nv/nvidia.ko':
-1 Invalid module format

ok hehe umm how do I install the source ?

Any help or links to help be greatly appreciated

Question 2 is that I get no sound from CD/DVD drives, I dont have the audio cables hooked up because in Windows it came threw the IDE cable. mabye I need drivers for the spicific cd/dvdroms that i have but not sure, hehe I got lot to learn

btw system specs are

AMD Athlon 2600+
Gforce FX5200 ( 8xagp 128mb ddr )
512mb pc3200 DDR
Asus A7N8X mainboard
Samsun 80GB HDD

not sure is theres a max length to these post but should I post the whole Nvidia driver install log ?

Well the sound from CD/DVD sounds like a hardware issue. Inside your computer there shoulder be a cable (about as big around as a piece of spaghetti) going from the drive to your sound card.

Ok, the nvidia thing. There are tons of threads here that describe tons of issues. Make sure you give a thorough search. You need to make sure that the kernel source is installed for the kernel version that you are using. Use yum or GYUM to install.

thanks for the info, I have tried a few ways from what if found on the board, it seem the Kernel is whats holdiing me up, will have to read up on how to use YUM to install the source.

as for the sound, yes I know about the Analog cable, but I wanted to get Digital too, I learnt the with XMMS ( only one i know of yet ) I can do the Digital signal extraction. so I got that figured out, but in my noobness I cant figure out how to play the actual CD lol. with xmms I go in to play location or file but cant find the CD, im trying atm to make XMMS my default player so it will jus autoload, i been useing windows 95 - XP since ive owned a computer/s this is all very new. mabye it would be better to me to run FC2 final instead of FC3 test.

What kernel are you running on? If it is the latest kernel as in www.kernel.org, then you're having a problem as most of us, nvidia users having ..

How do I solved it? .

1. Extract the NVIDIA driver
$ sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1.run -x

2. Edit the ~/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111/src/nv/nv.c and add the following code:

/* To fix the missing __VMALLOC_RESERVE for kernel 2.8.9 */
#define __VMALLOC_RESERVE (128 << 20)

3. Run the nvidia-installer manually
$ ./nvidia-installer

Good luck! This is a quick fix surely. Hopefully nvidia can come up with latest driver with it fixes.

bubbs, For kernel install simply type in a terminal as root: yum install kernel-sourcecode

Run the following command before to see which kernel you're currently running:

uname -r

to ensure you grab the correct sourcecode.


As far as xmms, you'll have to disable the cdplayer autoplay... Then xmms will be able to play digital music off your cd (also, it would display album/track info ).

just wait until monday when FC3 is officially released.