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

[poma]

On 14.11.2014 22:48, poma wrote:
> 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
> 

Also take a look at
http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/VideoAcceleration