null Posted June 13, 2004 Report Share Posted June 13, 2004 (edited) 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. :o what did I do wrong, or maybe I can d/l an older driver instead...?? This is FC2, by the way, kernel 2.6.? Edited June 14, 2004 by null Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VeeDubb Posted June 14, 2004 Report Share Posted June 14, 2004 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted June 14, 2004 Report Share Posted June 14, 2004 Load "glx" hasn't been required, just means no glx_acc. But try it. I haven't used fc2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
null Posted June 14, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 14, 2004 (edited) 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. Edited June 14, 2004 by null Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
null Posted June 14, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 14, 2004 (edited) 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] Edited June 14, 2004 by null Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted June 17, 2004 Report Share Posted June 17, 2004 It is because 4kstack was piled into the kernel, you can either follow this i threw out there Click ME Or go linuxant.com and download there pre-compiled kernel rpm Click ME instead! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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