Bug 141052

Summary: nvidia driver install problems
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: randomronald <randomronald>
Component: xorg-x11Assignee: X/OpenGL Maintenance List <xgl-maint>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description randomronald 2004-11-28 19:55:29 UTC 
Description of problem:
nvidia installs ok, xserver can be started with opengl support but on
reboot xserver fails to intialise and refuses to load.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Linux Display Driver - IA32

Version: 1.0-6629
Operating System: Linux IA32
Release Date: November 5, 2004

NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1.run 
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Fedora Core 3
Kernel 2.6.9-1.681_FC3 on an i686


How reproducible:
In order to startup x I have to edit the xorg.config and change driver
from "nvidia" to "nv"
or
re-install nvidia driver.
If i do either and reboot the x server fails again.

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Comment 1 Alex Butcher 2004-11-29 00:34:22 UTC 
Try following the instructions at <http://www.fedorafaq.org/#nvidia>,
or use the livna.org RPM <http://rpm.livna.org/livna-switcher.html>
Comment 2 Sitsofe Wheeler 2004-11-29 00:44:41 UTC 
This is a dup of bug 141044  which is in turn a dup of bug bug 73733
Comment 3 Mike A. Harris 2004-12-07 07:44:01 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 141044 ***
Comment 4 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 19:07:18 UTC 
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.