http://forums.fedoraforum.org – I have a rather old video card installed. It is the nVidia Vanta/Vanta LT /sbin/lspci -nn | grep 'VGA\|NV' Code: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation NV6 [Vanta/Vanta LT] [10de:002c] (rev 15) The card is not supported by the kmod drivers so I installed this driver from ATrpms nvidia-graphics71.86.11-kmdl-2.6.30.8-64.fc11.i586 0:71.86.11-100.fc11 which I checked with the nVidia site to make sure it was the correct driver. How ever the nVidia driver is not being used as shown in xorg.conf cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf (only copied necessary sections.) Code: Section "Device" ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False", ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz" ### [arg]: arg optional #Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>] #Option "HWcursor" # [<bool>] #Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>] #Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>] #Option "VideoKey" # <i> #Option "FlatPanel" # [<bool>] #Option "FPDither" # [<bool>] #Option "FPScale" # [<bool>] #Option "FPTweak" # <i> #Option "CBLocation" # <str> #Option "CBSize" # <i> #Option "Randr12" # [<bool>] #Option "ScalingMode" # <str> #Option "EXAPixmaps" # [<bool>] Identifier "Card0" Driver "nouveau" VendorName "nVidia Corporation" BoardName "NV6 [Vanta/Vanta LT]" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" EndSection and I get this in Xorg.0.log Code: (II) NOUVEAU driver for NVIDIA chipset families : RIVA TNT (NV04) RIVA TNT2 (NV05) GeForce 256 (NV10) GeForce 2 (NV11, NV15) GeForce 4MX (NV17, NV18) GeForce 3 (NV20) GeForce 4Ti (NV25, NV28) GeForce FX (NV3x) GeForce 6 (NV4x) GeForce 7 (G7x) GeForce 8 (G8x) (II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa (II) FBDEV: driver for framebuffer: fbdev (II) Primary Device is: PCI 01@00:00:0 (WW) Falling back to old probe method for vesa (WW) Falling back to old probe method for fbdev (II) Loading sub module "fbdevhw" (II) LoadModule: "fbdevhw" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/linux//libfbdevhw.so (II) Module fbdevhw: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 1.6.3.901, module version = 0.0.2 ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 5.0 (EE) open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory (II) resource ranges after probing: [0] -1 0 0xffffffff - 0xffffffff (0x1) MX[b] [1] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[b] [2] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[b] [3] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[b] [4] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[b] [5] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x00000000 (0x1) IX[b] (--) NOUVEAU(0): Chipset: "NVIDIA NV04" Notice nouveau doesn't even support my card so it resorts to the Riva TNT. So I follow leigh123linux's guide here http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=204752 now if I add the following to xorg.config Code: Section "Files" ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia" ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers" ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules" EndSection Section "ServerFlags" Option "AIGLX" "on" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "nvidia" Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True" EndSection Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "Enable" EndSection and I blacklist the nouveau driver I get this in the Xorg.0.log Code: (II) LoadModule: "nvidia" (WW) Warning, couldn't open module nvidia (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia" (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0) (EE) No drivers available. Fatal server error: no screens found Hmm now I am confused being that I know I installed my driver. So where is it? (HowTos)
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