[mythtv-users] Upgraded to Fedora 16 and nvidia and xorg.conf don't work

[Gabe Rubin]

On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 9:27 PM, Gabe Rubin <gaberubin at gmail.com> wrote:
> I tried to upgrade from fedora 14 to 16.  I used preupgrade and did it
> incrementally from 14 to 15 to 16.  It appeared that the 14 to 15
> upgrade worked well enough, although I had to remove some kernels from
> /boot do to space limitations.
>
> However, the 15 to 16 upgrade has not been as smooth.  I believe this
> is because I screwed up and took a kernel out that should not have
> been taken out so the correct arguments were not written in the grub
> config file.  I wound up just downloading the dvd iso and "upgrading"
> from that after things would not start, and now my mythbox appears to
> at least load everything until it gets to the xorg.conf portion.  It
> hangs there and goes to a text console.
>
> I am thinking this is probably a stupid and easy to fix problem (at
> least I am hoping).  Here are what I believe to be the pertinent
> details:
>
> I am running the following kernel:
> [root at localhost ~]# uname -r
> 3.1.2-1.fc16.i686
>
> This is what is in my grub config file (took me a while to realize
> that fedora 16 uses grub2, which uses /etc/default/grub as the grub
> file):
> GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
> GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="Fedora"
> GRUB_DEFAULT=saved
> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rd.lvm.lv=VolGroup00/lv_root rd.md=0 rd.dm=0
> rd.lvm.lv=VolGroup/lv_swap nouveau.modeset=0 KEYTABLE=us quiet
> SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 rhgb rd.luks=0 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> rd.lvm.lv=VolGroup00/lv_swap"
>
> In my xorg.conf file, I have the following:
> Section "Device"
>        Identifier  "Videocard0"
>        Driver      "nvidia"
> EndSection
>
> I have the following nvidia related rpms loaded:
> [root at localhost ~]# rpm -qa |grep nvidia
> nvidia-graphics-long-lived-275.36-62.i386
> nvidia-graphics275.36-kmdl-3.1.2-1.fc16.i686-275.36-138.fc16.i686
> nvidia-graphics275.36-275.36-138.fc16.i686
> nvidia-graphics-devices-1.0-6.fc16.noarch
> nvidia-graphics275.36-libs-275.36-138.fc16.i686
> nvidia-graphics-helpers-0.0.30-33.fc16.i686
>
>
> Here is the trouble in the xorg log:
> [    20.754] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA GPU at
> PCI:1:0:0.  Please
> [    20.754] (EE) NVIDIA(0):     check your system's kernel log for
> additional error
> [    20.754] (EE) NVIDIA(0):     messages and refer to Chapter 8:
> Common Problems in the
> [    20.754] (EE) NVIDIA(0):     README for additional information.
> [    20.754] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics device!
> [    20.754] (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
> [    20.754] (II) Unloading nvidia
> [    20.754] (II) UnloadModule: "wfb"
> [    20.754] (II) Unloading wfb
> [    20.754] (II) UnloadModule: "fb"
> [    20.754] (II) Unloading fb
> [    20.754] (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
> [    20.754]
> Fatal server error:
> [    20.754] no screens found
> [    20.754]
> Please consult the Fedora Project support
>         at http://wiki.x.org
>  for help.
> [    20.754] Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log"
> for additional information.
> [    20.754]
> [    20.765] Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
>
>
> This is the end of dmesg:
> [   20.753945] vmap allocation for size 16781312 failed: use
> vmalloc=<size> to increase size.
> [   20.755663] NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x26:0xffffffff:1076)
> [   20.755670] NVRM: rm_init_adapter(0) failed
> [   21.029422] vmap allocation for size 16781312 failed: use
> vmalloc=<size> to increase size.
> [   21.035123] NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x26:0xffffffff:1076)
> [   21.035141] NVRM: rm_init_adapter(0) failed
> [   21.177357] vmap allocation for size 16781312 failed: use
> vmalloc=<size> to increase size.
> [   21.183074] NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x26:0xffffffff:1076)
> [   21.183093] NVRM: rm_init_adapter(0) failed
> [   21.325043] vmap allocation for size 16781312 failed: use
> vmalloc=<size> to increase size.
> [   21.330507] NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x26:0xffffffff:1076)
> [   21.330525] NVRM: rm_init_adapter(0) failed
> [   21.472454] vmap allocation for size 16781312 failed: use
> vmalloc=<size> to increase size.
> [   21.478189] NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x26:0xffffffff:1076)
> [   21.478208] NVRM: rm_init_adapter(0) failed
> [   21.620150] vmap allocation for size 16781312 failed: use
> vmalloc=<size> to increase size.
> [   21.625970] NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x26:0xffffffff:1076)
> [   21.625988] NVRM: rm_init_adapter(0) failed
>
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>

Just wanted to add the following information:
[root at localhost ~]# lsmod | grep nvidia
nvidia              10721121  0
i2c_core               21588  23
nvidia,tuner_simple,tuner,msp3400,saa7127,saa7115,ivtv,i2c_algo_bit,i2c_piix4,v4l2_common,videodev,tveeprom,dvb_usb_dib0700,dib7000p,dib0090,dib7000m,dib0070,dvb_usb,dib8000,dib9000,dib3000mc,dibx000_common,ir_kbd_i2c


I am virtually certain that nouveau is being properly blacklisted, as
I get nothing when I do lsmod | grep nouveau