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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