Video drivers on a MacBook Pro 5,2 - update

[Henrik Frisk]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Henrik Frisk <frisk.h at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 1:16 PM, TortuXm++ <tortuxm at baobob.org> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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!
>
> Hmm, I'm still getting the same results. I followed the instructions above
but when I reboot, after the three blue bars have finished loading and
turned white, the bar starts flickering and eventually comes to a halt.
After that nothing happens. I go back to nouveau things work fine again. Any
further suggestions?

/h
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