FC4 and NVidia Drivers: Solution
Mark Bidewell
mark.bidewell at alumni.clemson.edu
Tue Jun 14 01:25:37 UTC 2005
In case anyone else runs into this. The problem appears to be a
conflict with selinux. If you install the drivers with selinux disabled
(I used selinux=0 at boot time), everything will work fine even when
selinux is reenabled.
Mark Bidewell
Mark Bidewell wrote:
> Ben Steeves wrote:
>
>> On 6/13/05, Mark Bidewell <mark.bidewell at alumni.clemson.edu> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I have downloaded and installed FC4. However the latest NVidia
>>> graphics
>>> drivers cause X segmentation faults. I'm guessing the problem might be
>>> gcc4. Has anyone else encountered this problem?
>>>
>>
>>
>> Just to add a datapoint -- I just finished a fresh install of FC4
>> (typing this message on it, actually) and installed the NVidia drivers
>> (7664), and they work fine (so far). When are you getting these
>> segfaults?
>>
>>
>>
> I got them when running glxgears (but this was when I switched back to
> the nv driver). XWindows would normally come up as a blank screen
> (although rhgb would work normally). I tried changing to a low
> resolution (800x600 instead of 1280x1024) in case that was the
> problem, but nothing changed. The other segfault was when I toook the
> XServer down (ctrl+alt+bksp) due to the blank screen.
>
> Mark Bidewell
>
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