Comments on: SOLVED Fedora 12 + Nvidia installation problems

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 14:54:30 +0000

Hi AndyR, I have three points.

1. Are you not now using Fedora 13? For that, I have a tutorial here: http://linuxsoftwareblog.com/?p=516

2. In the procedure in step one, I have a feeling that you have overlooked the (very important) procedures 1 and 2. If kmod-nvidia has not been picked up, then you have not enabled the rpmfusion repository

3. If you want to repartition your hard drive, on your live USB the software: gParted. It will allow you to resize your Windows 7 drive, providing you don’t mount it.

By: AndyR

AndyR — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 01:44:09 +0000

Hi Rob,
Ok..I found the grub.conf file in for the live version. Still having trouble getting the nvidia drivers:
[root@localhost etc]# yum –enablerepo=rp*g update && yum –enablerepo=updates-testing –enablerepo=rp*g install kmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
Setting up Update Process
No Packages marked for Update
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
updates-testing/metalink | 9.6 kB 00:00
updates-testing | 4.5 kB 00:00
updates-testing/primary_db | 1.0 MB 00:01
Setting up Install Process
No package kmod-nvidia available.
No package xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686 available.
Nothing to do
[root@localhost etc]#

That’s it. The grub.conf thing now shows a nouveau fail…but no nvidia stuff to load in ti’s place.

This is not fun…and I can’t see the main HD on this laptop.

I can see the “install to HardDrive’ shortcut, but Win7 took eveything when installed. Plenty of free space. How do I squeeze down the Win7 partition and write a place for Linux?

By: cemetery

cemetery — Sun, 23 May 2010 21:48:36 +0000

Might want to replace the quotations in:

su -c “rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm”

with single quotes.

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 21 May 2010 08:41:51 +0000

thanks !

By: quakeboy

quakeboy — Fri, 21 May 2010 01:48:44 +0000

shall buy you a coffee.

By: Grandebou

Grandebou — Tue, 18 May 2010 21:34:21 +0000

Upgrading from Fedora 10 to Fedora 12 with vmlinuz-2.6.32.11-99.fc12.x86_64 kernel + nVidia Geforce 7800 GTX video adapter + nVidia Tesla C1060 failed miserably. Rebooting proved impossible (kernel hangs) after successful Preupgrade in FC10.

Reason : contrary to FC10, FC 12 implements *nouveau* kernel module by default in /boot/initramfs-2.6.32.11-99.fc12.x86_64.img, which is incompatible with current nVidia 195.36.24 proprietary driver.

Solution : power off machine, temporarily remove nVidia video + GPU hardware, insert basic PCI-slot graphics adapter, reboot, get rid of the *nouveau* module by overwriting /boot/initramfs typing as root “dracut -f /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)”. Next power off, reinstall nVidia hardware and reboot for the last time. Now the proprietary nVidia driver is loaded at boot time as a kernel module and everything works fine.

By: Tabgok

Tabgok — Sun, 09 May 2010 20:56:21 +0000

*Edit on last post*
Its not a Fedora issue, but for some reason my machine already had a fedora-12 build of the free release installed, and the command in step two was trying to install a Fedora-11 build version.

By: Tabgok

Tabgok — Sun, 09 May 2010 20:56:16 +0000

I’ve noticed some people are still* having problems with this (and I did too). Fedora 12 currently has an rpmfusion version which causes a confliction with step 2. If you are getting errors with the “no package *** available” simply modify step two to just include the nonfree repositories as follows:

su -c ‘rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm‘

This gets rid of the confliction and allows the rpms to be downloaded, and the tutorial should be able to be followed from there with no problems.

*Note*
There might be a better way to do this, but I’m not savvy enough to come up with a command that automatically ignores conflictions.

By: GAWRRELL

GAWRRELL — Fri, 07 May 2010 20:37:33 +0000

Hy everyone…. please help me too … I have this problem

I’ve do all the step’s above and I get this error

[root@FORCEDS GAWRRELL]# yum install –enablerepo=updates-testing –enablerepo=rp*g kmod-nvidia.$(uname -m) xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
Setting up Install Process
No package kmod-nvidia.i686 available.
No package xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686 available.
Nothing to do

Please help

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