Fedora 10 64-bit on Nvidia 180.16 running 2.6.29 kernel

Fedora 10 64-bit on 2.6.29 kernel with Nvidia 180.16

2.6.29 is not yet in the stable branch. Be warned

Koji has the latest 2.6.29 kernel release. In order to try that, just download the latest kernel and install them

nareshv@@ /home/nareshv/Download $ ls -l kernel*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 nareshv nareshv 23262282 2009-01-05 17:01 kernel-2.6.29-0.9.rc0.git4.fc11.x86_64.rpm
-rw-rw-r-- 1 nareshv nareshv  6121797 2009-01-05 16:59 kernel-devel-2.6.29-0.9.rc0.git4.fc11.x86_64.rpm
-rw-rw-r-- 1 nareshv nareshv   388583 2009-01-05 16:59 kernel-firmware-2.6.29-0.9.rc0.git4.fc11.noarch.rpm

Also, Trying out the Latest Nvidia Drivers on 2.6.28 is easy too. You can download the Nvidia drivers from here

First time if you boot the kernel, you will see error something like this in the xorg.log

195 (II) resource ranges after preInit:
196 >___[0] -1>_0>__0xffffffff - 0xffffffff (0x1) MX[B]
197 >___[1] -1>_0>__0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B]
198 >___[2] -1>_0>__0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B]
199 >___[3] -1>_0>__0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B]
200 >___[4] -1>_0>__0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B]
201 >___[5] -1>_0>__0x00000000 - 0x00000000 (0x1) IX[B]
202 (II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized GPU GART.
203 (II) NVIDIA(0): ACPI display change hotkey events enabled: the X server is new
204 (II) NVIDIA(0):     enough to receive ACPI display change hotkey events.
205 (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "nvidia-auto-select"
206 (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to allocate video memory
207 (EE) NVIDIA(0):  *** Aborting ***
208 
209 Fatal server error:
210 AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0

In order to workaround this error, you need to add the following option to the grub.conf

14 title Fedora (2.6.29-0.9.rc0.git4.fc11.x86_64)
 15 >___root (hd0,2)
 16 >___kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.29-0.9.rc0.git4.fc11.x86_64 ro root=UUID=25d9d23a-5a17-4ffe-831f-556213caaa16 rhgb quiet nopat
 17 >___initrd /initrd-2.6.29-0.9.rc0.git4.fc11.x86_64.img

nopat is our friend here.

Enjoy your 2.6.29 kernel running latest nvidia driver on Fedora 10.