Description of problem: THIS MAY NOT APPEAR TO BE A FEDORA PROBLEM BUT IT IS. NVIDIA IS A REASONABLY IMPORTANT COMPANY AND SO ARE THEIR DRIVERS (especially considering Fedora Core 3 does not provide Geforce 6800 drivers) while installing the Nvidia drivers from the Nvidia website "NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-6111-pkg2.run" (Nvidia suggests "conflicting module rivafb must be uninstalled"). Serious problems then arise if the recommended changes are made, eg 'vesa' is changed to 'nvidia' in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Fedora gets as far as "... kernel paramaters" (the line after "... sound/audio...") upon its next restart after these changes to the xorg.conf. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Core 3. Test 3. 2.92 How reproducible: at least once Steps to Reproduce: 1. install Nvidia drivers (Nvidia suggests "conflicting module rivafb must be uninstalled"). 2. Serious problems then after if 'vesa' is changed to 'nvidia' in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. (Fedora gets as far as "... kernel paramaters" [the line after "... sound/audio..."] upon its next restart) Actual results: Fedora can no longer start Expected results: Fedora starts with loaded 'nvidia' display drivers Additional info:
Thanks for the report. For users who are experiencing problems installing, configuring, or using the unsupported 3rd party proprietary "nvidia" video driver, Nvidia provides indirect customer support via an online web based support forum. Nvidia monitors these web forums for commonly reported problems and passes them on to Nvidia engineers for investigation. Once they've isolated a particular problem, it is often fixed in a future video driver update. The NVNews Nvidia Linux driver forum is located at: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=14 Once you have reported this issue in the Nvidia web forums, others who may have experienced the particular problem may be able to assist. If there is a real bug occuring, Nvidia will be able to determine this, and will likely resolve the issue in a future driver update for the operating system releases that they officially support. While Red Hat does not support the proprietary nvidia driver, users requiring technical support may find the various X.Org, XFree86, and Red Hat mailing lists helpful in finding assistance: X.Org mailing lists: http://www.freedesktop.org/XOrg/XorgMailingLists XFree86 mailing lists: http://www.xfree86.org/sos/lists.html Red Hat mailing lists: https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo Setting status to "NOTABUG" (unsupported).
The original summary for this bug was longer than 255 characters, and so it was truncated when Bugzilla was upgraded. The original summary was: while installing the Nvidia drivers from the Nvidia website "NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-6111-pkg2.run" (Nvidia suggests "conflicting module rivafb must be uninstalled"). Serious problems then arise if the recommended changes are made, eg 'vesa' is changed to 'nvidia' in /etc/X11/xorg.conf