KMS not working with nVidia, no Nouveau and a bad resolution in GNOME

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On 14.11.2014 19:19, Ville-Pekka Vainio wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've already filed a bug 
> <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1164351> but thought I'd 
> let the list know as well.
> 
> I have this graphics card:
> NVIDIA Corporation GK104 [GeForce GTX 660 Ti] (rev a1)
> 
> With kernel-3.17.2-300.fc21.x86_64 KMS does not work. During the 
> 'console phase' of the boot the display turns itself off completely and 
> in GNOME I only get a resolution of 800x600 with the VESA driver.
> 
> I'm now using the fedora-rawhide-kernel-nodebug repo and the 3.18 
> kernels seem to work better. I can still make the system halt by using 
> Google Maps in Firefox but other than that it seems to work fine.
> 
> Upgrading to F21 Beta with fedup was quite an experience since I got no 
> picture at all. Luckily I still have an old spinning HDD so I could 
> actually hear the system doing the upgrade...
> 

Latest & Greatest
Nouveau driver - core, tools and DRM implementation
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~darktama/nouveau

For kernel >= 3.18.0-0.rc4

$ su -c 'yum install kernel-devel'
$ git clone git://people.freedesktop.org/~darktama/nouveau
$ cd nouveau/drm/
$ make
$ su
# cp nouveau.ko /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/updates/
# depmod
# reboot