FC11 to FC12 Upgrade Problems

Actually only the one problem relating to my nvidia card.  I have a Quadro NVS 280 driving two monitors.  Not too exotic but an older card nevertheless.  Here's what I did to make it all work again.

In brief, delete the xorg*nvidia* and nouveu stuff, remove the PAE kernel.  Install the regular kernel and install nvidia's driver.  You will have to be root and at runlevel 3.  I have a 32 bit system and 1Gb RAM, the PAE kernel may be required if you have more that 1Gb.

Yum remove xorg-x11-drv-nvidia*

yum remove xorg-x11-drv-nouveu*

yum install kernel kernel-devel

Reboot ino new kernel and make sure there is no nouveu module listed from "lsmod".  If there is you will have to rebuild your initramfs using "dracut /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)" If prepping a new kernel then replace $(uname -r) with the actual kernel name . Delete /etc/X11/xorg.conf.  Get NVIDIA-Linux-x86-96.43.13-pkg1.run from Nvidia's website and run it to install.  Start X by "init 5" or "startx".  Setup your diisplays using "nvidia-settings".  Restart X. 

This worked for me, your mileage may vary.

More info can be found at http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=204752

Last changed: Jun 12 2010 at 9:25 PM

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