nvidia drivers from freshrpms.net
Fernando Lozano
fernando at lozano.eti.br
Wed Nov 1 18:16:19 UTC 2006
Hi,
Here's the X log.
[]s, Fernando Lozano
> Hi,
>
> Found that need to install kenel-xen-devel so the nvidia kernel module
> can be build and loaded. Now when I start X I get a blak screen and a
> complain that the GLX extension cannot be loaded, but it looks like
> I'm loading the correct one from nvidia. Any ideas?
>
>
> []s, Fernando Lozano
>
>> I have a nVidia GEForce MX 440 card but never bothered with OpenGL
>> applications before. But I just installed FC6 and heard all rumors
>> about compiz, so I decided to give it a try.
>>
>> I understand I need the nVidia proprietary drivers for compiz to work
>> with my card, so I installed the package from Freshrpms.net. But it
>> looks like the kernel refuses to load the drivers. At least I say a
>> message saying so during boot and could not start X. I had to
>> reconfigure X to use the Xorg open source driver (nv) instead of the
>> proprietary one (nvidia) but I could not find in any log that message.
>>
>> I read the docs from nVidia web site but had no success. What could
>> be preventing the driver to load? Maybe SELinux?
>>
>> []s, Fernando Lozano
>>
>
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