nvidia driver cause Fedora 6 to hang when X windows trys to start.
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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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Last edited by Junior Hacker; 02-16-2007 at 12:14 AM.
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
to try and get more info. Is there any sort of single step mode to loading X?
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