My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

[Neal Becker]

Gerald Henriksen wrote:

> On Fri, 13 May 2011 10:55:13 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
> 
>>Another thing... I cannot find a way to disable the Nouveau kernel module.
>>I have tried all the methods that worked before (rdblacklist and the
>>modules blacklist.) Nothing seems to work. I am going to have to rebuild
>>the kernel rpm. Why is this more difficult?
> 
> I haven't had any problems using the nviida driver through rpmfusion,
> but I haven't installed in quite a while.
> 
> Sounds like you have run into what is described here:
> 
> http://lists.atrpms.net/pipermail/atrpms-devel/2011-May/002664.html
> 
> Perhaps grab a different f15 kernel from koji and install it and see
> if that works as suggested in that thread.
> 
>>Hopefully I will be able to make this thing work.  I may have to go to KDE
>>for a bit until the Gnome developers finish writing it. (How long that
>>will take, I have no idea...)
> 
> They don't care about the issues you wrote about.  With Gnome 3 you
> have to learn their new way of doing things or switch to a different
> desktop.
> 

After installing the nvidia driver from rpmfusion, run (as root) dracut, then 
reboot.  Then lsmod should show no nouveau.

I asked the @rpmfusion back (was it F13?) to do this automatically, but after 
some discussion the idea was rejected.

At least, the rpm install could tell you to do it manually.