Fedora 12: Cannot boot with kernel-2.6.32.9-67.fc12.x86_64
Rick Sewill
rsewill at gmail.com
Mon Mar 8 18:19:52 UTC 2010
On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 09:19 -0600, John Thompson wrote:
> On 03/08/2010 03:32 AM, Fred Williams wrote:
>
> > If all I need to do is try running without the proprietary NVidia
> > driver,
> > please let me know specifically how to disable that driver the easiest
> > possible way. �Translation: so that I can just boot back into an older
> > kernel and continue using the proprietary NVidia driver if I decide
> > to do that.
>
> In your /etc/X11/xorg.conf you need to change the driver from "nvidia"
> (the proprietary driver) to "nv" (the open source driver).
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Device0"
> Driver "nvidia" # <===== THIS LINE
> VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
> BoardName "GeForce 6600 GT"
> Option "AccelMethod" "XAA" # not EXA
>
> BTW, what I do when I update the kernel is first boot into runlevel 3,
> then build the proprietary driver modules, and then change to runlevel 5.
>
> --
>
> -John (john at os2.dhs.org)
When I upgraded to Fedora 12,
I had an error, to the effect, hardware was already in use.
I found the "nouveau" driver had the hardware.
My xorg.conf file was using the "nv" driver.
Not thinking, I changed from the "nv" driver to the "nouveau" driver.
Searching the Internet, for the words, blacklist nouveau,
I found the following comment at URL:
http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Fedora/2010-01/msg02113.html
The summary of the comment was, if you use the rpmfusion repository,
for the nvidia module, it will automatically blacklist nouveau?
If I do an Internet, search for the words, blacklist nouveau nv,
I find indications some people, not sure who, claimed the nouveau
driver has passed up the nv driver, and has been made the default.
Questions please:
1) Are there 3 drivers, nvidia, nv, nouveau?
2) If there are 3 drivers, how did people decide which driver to use?
My questions on this subject, are as follows:
a) Is the nouveau driver now considered better than the nv driver?
If the nouveau driver is considered better, I am curious why?
b) Is it true the nvidia driver is faster than the nouveau driver?
I wanted to use the "free" driver, if possible, so I was using nv.
I switched to nouveau because that seemed to be the new default.
I am wondering what I am giving up not using the nvidia driver.
-Rick
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