livna vs. nvidia

Wong Kwok-hon kwokhon at gmail.com
Fri Apr 21 22:26:46 UTC 2006


On 4/21/06, Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/19/06, Wong Kwok-hon <kwokhon at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 4/20/06, Paul Lemmons <paul.lemmons at tmcaz.com> wrote:
> > >  Thanks, It has been a while since I had installed the drivers. Fortunately
> > > I still had the original installer on a thumb drive. I ran it with
> > > "--uninstall". It complained a little but did succeed. I rebooted and sure
> > > enough, all I got was a login prompt; No GUI. I yum installed the
> > > kernel-module-nvidia... package and rebooted again, just for fun, and
> > > everything came up.
> > >
> > >  Thank you all for your assistance!
> > >
> > >
> > >  On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 10:54 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> > >  Use the --uninstall option.
> > >
> > > On 4/19/06, Paul Lemmons <Paul.Lemmons at tmcaz.com> wrote:
> > > > Ok... this was a scary article...
> > > >
> > > > It does lead to another question though. I do have the drivers from the
> > > > vendor installed. Do I need to uninstall them before I install the livna
> > > > version? If so, how?
> > > >
> >
> > As I tried yesterday, the Nvidia driver download from Nvidia 8756 putt
> > into a path /usr/X11R6/lib which is wrong and X11 in Fedora Core 5 is
> > renamed which is /usr/lib/xorg/modules and some path changed. So If u
> > install the Nvidia driver from Nvidia site which is faster than livna
> > but need to put it into right path by manual or making a symbolic link
> > to it. I have tried and it also work...
>
> None of the symlinks are neccesary.  See:
> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=68681
>

I think you haven't tried comply the kernel module before. I build a
kernel module my self before I used lvina. And I found that X still
not found the modules even I turned off the selinux option as u
quoted. The drivers putted in to a wrong place which is still X11R6.

And also the thread said :

chcon -t texrel_shlib_t /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
chcon -t texrel_shlib_t /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so.1.0.8756

For 64 bit (x86_64) installations, please run the following commands:

chcon -t texrel_shlib_t /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
chcon -t texrel_shlib_t /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so.1.0.8756

Which the modules actually are not in /usr/lib/xorg/modules/ and in
/usr/lib/X11R6/modules/

So symlink is need to redirect to the files back to /usr/lib/xorg/modules/

Wong Kwok Hon




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