Gnome shell and NVidia binary drivers

[Daniel J Walsh]

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On 06/02/2011 07:50 AM, Alexander Volovics wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 02:17:11PM +0300, Pasha R wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Alexander Volovics <a.volovic at upcmail.nl> wrote:
> 
>>> So can their be some kind of conflict between the nvidia drivers and
>>> the gnome 3 shell. Is it possible that selinux is involved in this
>>> somehow.
>>>
>>> I really would like to solve this because I have wasted enough time
>>> trying to get this working. Any help would be appreciated.
>>>
>>> Alexander
>  
>> I installed the akmod-nvidia, and now also ran dracut --force to
>> recreate initramfs (and, obviously, rebooted). It doesn't help. I
>> installed KDE and it works, so, I guess drivers are working.
> 
> I don't doubt that the drivers work.
> I had previously installed ubuntu 11.04 on this same pc and
> installed the same nvidia drivers. They worked ok there.
> (But I didn't like unity so I removed ubuntu and installed fed 15)
> 
> Knowing that the drivers should work is hardly comforting when they
> refuse to work with fed15/gnome3.
> 
> I hope somebody comes with a suggestion or I will be forced to
> install KDE (which I don't like but at least you do not need to
> install the nvidia drivers because nouveau works quite well) or
> Xfce (which I don't like either and which has some bugs/shortcomings)
> 
> Alexander
> 
Put the machine in permissive mode and see if SELinux is blocking it.

setenforce 0

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