I followed everything in the guide, updates will not download, the box stays empty after a hour. I'm running on vmware and I'm sure that i had internet Also if you may, please tell me how to change the screen resolution at start up (it gets fine if i log in to my account but it's a bigger resolution at start up, user log in, etc) Thanks. *edit: INstalling regular software works and downloads just not updates
If by install logs then no. I found a way around it by just going in to the terminal. And sometimes installing regular software wont work eirther. Maybe it's just the GUI. Also about the screen resolution question. I wanted to change it on log in and start up, and I also tried your guide for Compiz and when ever compiz starts I get this. http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/5272/scrnreslf2.jpg And compiz doesn't work. (I tried going to display in the administration tool bar as root, but it doesn't seem like it wants to listen to the screen resolution and wants to keep at the highest possible) Is there a driver i need to download for compiz?
I tried nvidia but whenever I restart the GUI wont come up and when i typed in startx a error message comes up and it reconfigures everything.
Okay, what version of Nvidia do you have? Is it a GeForce 200 or some thing like that? If you run the command rpm -qa *nvidia* what are the results?
Nvidia GeForce 7200 GT rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-7.rpm yum install kmod-nvidia is what I used. And I already removed it since it screwed up so badly. EDIT : BTW i tried beryl also it logs me off every time i try to start the beryl manager. At least Compiz doesn't Log me off.....
What happens if you run these commands: su - yum install kmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia nvidia-config-display enable service nvidia restart and could you post your Xorg.conf file? It sounds like you have two issues, 1) You don't have the right driver installed 2) Your system isn't using the nv driver, try the above commands and let me know how it goes. You might want to check out this web site for additional instructions: http://www.diffingo.com/blog/content/blogcategory/34/33/
Nop, still doesn't work, here's my xorg.conf file Code: # Xorg configuration created by livna-config-display Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "single head configuration" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "VMMouse" "CorePointer" EndSection Section "Files" ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia" ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules" EndSection Section "ServerFlags" Option "AIGLX" "on" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "VMMouse" Driver "vmmouse" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" ModelName "LCD Panel 1280x800" HorizSync 31.5 - 90.0 VertRefresh 59.9 - 60.1 Option "dpms" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "nvidia" Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True" Option "DisableGLXRootClipping" "True" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes "1280x800" "1280x720" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection EndSection Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "Enable" EndSection And here's the screen shot with the error when I tried to start the x server. http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/3503/xerroriz0.jpg Thanks for all your help. EDIT: I followed everything here http://www.diffingo.com/blog/content/view/33/33/ (it said it's a requirement and I have no problems with this) and here http://www.diffingo.com/blog/content/view/32/33/ Not yet here but will eventually http://www.diffingo.com/blog/content/view/29/33/
I think I found your problem, in the section "Device" it should be "Driver "nv"" not Driver "nvidia" use gedit to change that. su - password gedit /etc/xorg.conf -> save as /etc/xorg.conf.old (just incase) then edit the device section and save as /etc/xorg.conf then post the results after the change
Still the same result as above when I tried to start the XSERVER. I've tried nv and nouveau. Should I just give up and try ATI?
I'll be honest, I am at a loss I have followed the instructions in the link I posted and was able to get mine working. At this point I can only suggest two more things, 1) See if Firewing has any ideas (he is on the team that develops the drivers for X the last I heard) 2) File a bug in Bugzilla. Other than that I have reached the extent of my knowledge, sorry I couldn't help you resolve this one. If you do find the secret to making it work please post it here someone else could benefit from it.
Before you give up on nVidia Maybe you should take a look here: http://fedorasolved.org/video-solutions/nvidia-yum-livna/ The HCL for the driver is here: http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_18897.html GeForce Go 7200 with a PCI ID of 0x01D6 is supported. Also GeForce 7300 SE/7200 GS 0x01D3 A new nVidia driver JUST came out about 4 days ago.
Oh, I think there's something wrong with my kernal I tried this stuff here http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2852 When i went in for install it wanted to compile a kernal so I let it go ahead and it cannot find my kernal files for some reason heres screen shot. http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/7078/kernalki4.jpg
Ther eis a newer kernel and a newer nVidia driver First off Fedora 7 kernel 2.6.22-7 releases any minute. If you "just can't wait" go here: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=19274 This is the release kernel, it just is not on the update repos (yet) Simply download the files for kernel, kernel-devel and kernel-libs. Make sure you get the ones for your arch To check what arch: uname -M For example I have an i386 install on an AMD Athlon64 X2, but I wanted 32 bit for browser plugin compatibility. As a result I have an i386 install, and it uses the i686 kernel ( 32 bit) Then: rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.22.7-85.fc7.i686.rpm rpm -Uvh kernel-debug-2.6.22.7-85.fc7.i686.rpm rpm -Uvh kernel-headers-2.6.22.7-85.fc7.i386.rpm Optionally you may install the kernel debuginfo as well: rpm -Uvh kernel-debuginfo-2.6.22.7-85.fc7.i686.rpm Next, once that is installed, if you use the system updater and update/install "kmod-nvidia" you will get the driver 100.14.19 Look here: http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html There is a Fedora dependency for the 2.6.22-7 kernel so be sure to do the kernel first. But, I repeat BUT!! Do NOT install the nVidia drivers manually! Use yum, and then your dependencies will work properly. And, every time after you get a kernel update you will have to manually re-install (which sucks). yum update kmod-nvidia should do the trick Good luck!
