Gnome shell and NVidia binary drivers
Pasha R
pashar.ml at gmail.com
Thu Jun 2 13:07:49 UTC 2011
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 5:16 AM, Alexander Volovics <a.volovic at upcmail.nl> wrote:
>> 1) The rpmfusion (kmod or akmod) install does not get rid of the nouveau
>> kernel modules as expected. You MUST run dracut to create a new
>> initramfs file before rebooting. Only then are the nouveau modules
>> unloaded.
>
> Well, yes and no. It's true that installing the kmod or akmod does not
> run dracut for you but it should add "rdblacklist=nouveau" to the
> kernel line in your grub.conf which should effectively stop nouveau
> from loading unless that kernel option is broken in F15.
>
> If rdblacklist is there (and still functional) then that would explain
> why running dracut didn't help.
>
If I understand correctly, nouveau driver prevents nvidia driver from
loading. This is definitely not my case. In my case nvidia driver is
loaded, and X works fine (in KDE). The problem happens only in Gnome
3.
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