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</head><BODY BGCOLOR="#F0F0F0" ><div><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;"> On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 19:35:04 -0800, Brad DerManouelian wrote:<br /><br /></span></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:navy;">> yum install nvidia-graphics9631-kmdl-`uname -r` or if you want to use the</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:navy;">> newer nvidia driver,</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:navy;">> yum install nvidia-graphics9746-kmdl-`uname -r`</SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:navy;">> That will get the kernel modules installed for the current kernel that</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:navy;">> you're running. You'll also need to make sure to do yum install nvidia-</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:navy;">> graphics9631 or</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:navy;">> yum install nvidia-graphics9746 depending on which one you decide to go with.</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;"><br /><br /></span></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;">The first problem is that 9746 doesn't support my video card (GeForce 4 MX 440). So 9631 seems to be my only choice.</SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;">Yesterday there was no version of 9631 for my kernel (2.6.19-1.2911.6.5.fc6) but timing is everything and there is one today.  So I used it and still have a problem.  The tail end of the Xorg.0.log file looks like this:</SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;">(**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;">(==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;">(==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;">(==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;">(**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling RENDER acceleration</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;">(II) NVIDIA(0): Support for GLX with the Damage and Composite X extensions is</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;">(II) NVIDIA(0):     enabled.</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;">(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module!</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;">(EE) NVIDIA(0):  *** Aborting ***</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;">(II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;">(II) UnloadModule: "ramdac"</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;">(II) UnloadModule: "fb"</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;">(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.</SPAN></div>
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