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.
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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.
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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. Quote:
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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 |
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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 Code:
system-config-display Code:
system-config-display 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.
Code:
yum remove kmod-nvidia -y |
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 Code:
startx -logverbose 5 All ideas are welcome.:scratch: |
I FIXED IT. :)
Turns out it was one of the options in the Device section Code:
Option "ConnectedMonitor" "TV" 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 |
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