Video drivers on a MacBook Pro 5,2 - update

[Henrik Frisk]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 1:16 PM, TortuXm++ <tortuxm at baobob.org> wrote:

> Sorry for double posting, I had a little problem on my keyboard.
>
> > --
> >  OK, thanks for the info. However, it turns out that my installation of
> > the nvidia drivers was not as succeful as I tought. After reboot my
> laptop
> > refuses to start X (hangs during startup). After removing the nvidia
> > drivers and returning to nouveau things work again. This is on
> > 2.6.34.7-56.fc13.i686.PAE.
> >
> > I would prefer to have the nvidia drivers working so any suiggestions
> for
> > a workaround will be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > best,
>
> The main problem I usually had when switching from nouveau to nvidia or
> vice
> versa is the fact that nouveau is built in the initrd so that KMS can be
> used.
>
> If you want to switch to nvidia, you have to blacklist nouveau, and then
> re-
> generate the initrd
>
> Although I did blacklist nouveau, I didn't regenerate the initrd. Hopefully
that fixes it.

>
> I *think* that the rpmfusion nvidia package already generated a
> blacklist-nouveau
> file in modprobe.d. I this is true, you'd just have to recreate the initrd
> with dracut.
>
>
> Here is the howto I found on rpmfusion :
>
> http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia
>
> That's useful. Thank you for the information!

/h
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