Monday, April 24, 2006

Install NVIDIA Accelerated Graphical Driver in FC5

When I switched from FC4 to FC5, I had a problem with the NVIDIA Graphical Driver. The module was built for the older kernel version and it had to be rebuilt for the newer FC5's kernel version. I downloaded the latest driver from NVIDIA website and followed all the usual steps. However, the startx command, instead of starting the X Server, generated a long screen page of error messages. Basically, it complained that the nvidia and glx modules were not loaded, even though I could find them using " lsmod grep nvidia ".

The solution to this problem: (as root)

# cd /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers
# ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so .
# ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so .
# reboot

I did not know why this problem occured with FC5 kernel but not FC4. It was quite uncomfortable to add the symlinks manually while it was better to be done using a script. Anyway, the problem could be solved this way.

2 Comments:

Blogger Minh Nguyen, Ken said...

testing

1:52 AM  
Blogger Minh Nguyen, Ken said...

testing2

2:14 AM  

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