Didn't take me long to break my new system.

I d/l the nvidia driver, as usual, the newest one listed. Did the usual steps: change initdefault to runlevel 3, exit x and reboot, run the nvidia install (sh NVIDIA-blah-blah).
The nvidia installer told me "no precompiled kernel module found.." and it proceded to do whatever it wanted to do, and finished without any problems.

Then I get to the part where you edit your XF86Config file, except I don't see that one, so I instead edit xorg.conf. I deleted the Load "glx" line out of the Module Section, and changed "nv" to "nvidia" in the Display section. So far so good.

But when I then did startx, I just get a blank screen.

what did I do wrong, or maybe I can d/l an older driver instead...??

This is FC2, by the way, kernel 2.6.?

not sure about fedora but I'm pretty sure you don't want to deltel the load glx line. I mean, if you don't load glx, how do you expect it to work??

In mandrake the file is /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 most distros it's that minus the -4. not sure if you're using xorgs version of X though.


Anyway, start by replacing the glx line and trying again.

Load "glx"
hasn't been required, just means no glx_acc. But try it. I haven't used fc2.

sorry for the confusion, I made a typo in the first post. I meant I deleted load "dri" out of the Modules section (as nvidia says to do). Load "glx" is STILL there, as it is supposed to be.

It must be something else.

I changed back to "nv" to get my X back. I'd like 3-D acceleration though.

hmmm... over on linuxquestions I found some threads about how FC2 and the nvidia driver don't play nice. Guess I'll wait a while and see if the next driver will work.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/sh...threadid=192523]

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Or go linuxant.com and download there pre-compiled kernel rpm

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