Did anybody successfully install the proprietary Nvidia driver on Macbook Pro(EFI boot)?
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Hi!
I am running fedora 17 on a Macbook Pro 6,2 with an integrated intel and a nvidia graphic card, lspci -v | grep VGA gives:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 18) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT216 [GeForce GT 330M] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Unfortunately, there are two issues which the open source driver nouveau:
1. The laptop does not resume from suspend to ram after having been connected to an external monitor, this is bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=858798
2. I intend to work with Nvidias CUDA framework and therefore have to use their driver :(
I tried to use both the nvidia-graphics.x86_64e kmod-nvidia* package from rpmfusion repo and the nvidia-graphics package from the atrpms repo.
Using standard boot options, the boot process seems to hang just before gdm is started. Adding the kernel option nomodeset, the monitor gets dark after the boot process and after having connected a 2nd monitor I realized that actually the laptop monitor light was completely switched off. Is there any possibility to switch it on during the boot process?
Any ideas or experience how to get the Nvidia driver running? Of course, any pointers or hints are very much appreciated!
Best, Andre
On 02/10/12 15:03, Andre Massing wrote:
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Hi!
I am running fedora 17 on a Macbook Pro 6,2 with an integrated intel and a nvidia graphic card, lspci -v | grep VGA gives:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 18) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT216 [GeForce GT 330M] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Unfortunately, there are two issues which the open source driver nouveau:
- The laptop does not resume from suspend to ram after having been
connected to an external monitor, this is bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=858798
- I intend to work with Nvidias CUDA framework and therefore have to
use their driver :(
I tried to use both the nvidia-graphics.x86_64e kmod-nvidia* package from rpmfusion repo and the nvidia-graphics package from the atrpms repo.
Using standard boot options, the boot process seems to hang just before gdm is started. Adding the kernel option nomodeset, the monitor gets dark after the boot process and after having connected a 2nd monitor I realized that actually the laptop monitor light was completely switched off. Is there any possibility to switch it on during the boot process?
Any ideas or experience how to get the Nvidia driver running? Of course, any pointers or hints are very much appreciated!
Best, Andre
Hi: I've no Mac experience and currently run f16 but here are a few comments.
The rpmfusion and atrpms packages are generally believed incompatible. If you try one, remove all traces of the other - lib packages too.
I use ATrpms; the nvidia-graphics package should pull in nvidia-graphics-helpers, nvidia-graphics302.17, a kmdl and a libs package, and maybe nvidia-graphics-devices too.
I don't think the nomodeset kernel option has been needed for some time, although it probably gets set automatically.
You may need to run, as root, /usr/sbin/nvidia-graphics-switch.
HTH
John P
Hi: I've no Mac experience and currently run f16 but here are a few comments.
The rpmfusion and atrpms packages are generally believed incompatible. If you try one, remove all traces of the other - lib packages too.
I use ATrpms; the nvidia-graphics package should pull in nvidia-graphics-helpers, nvidia-graphics302.17, a kmdl and a libs package, and maybe nvidia-graphics-devices too.
I don't think the nomodeset kernel option has been needed for some time, although it probably gets set automatically.
You may need to run, as root, /usr/sbin/nvidia-graphics-switch.
This may be needed too (from the f16 package description):
Add ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia" ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions" ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules" to `Section "Files"' in the config file and remove/comment the dri module.
HTH
John P
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On 10/02/2012 05:43 PM, John Pilkington wrote:
Hi: I've no Mac experience and currently run f16 but here are a few comments.
The rpmfusion and atrpms packages are generally believed incompatible. If you try one, remove all traces of the other - lib packages too.
I use ATrpms; the nvidia-graphics package should pull in nvidia-graphics-helpers, nvidia-graphics302.17, a kmdl and a libs package, and maybe nvidia-graphics-devices too.
I don't think the nomodeset kernel option has been needed for some time, although it probably gets set automatically.
You may need to run, as root, /usr/sbin/nvidia-graphics-switch.
This may be needed too (from the f16 package description):
Add ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia" ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions" ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules" to `Section "Files"' in the config file and remove/comment the dri module.
Thank you very much for the helpful comments! Work is done for today, so I can go home now and tinker with the settings. I will report back later...
Best, Andre
HTH
John P
When I sent my earlier posts on this I didn't check that there was a kmdl at dl.atrpms.net that matched the current f17 kernel. I see a new kmdl has arrived today for 3.5.4-2. That may help.
http://dl.atrpms.net/f17-x86_64/atrpms/stable/nvidia-graphics302.17-kmdl-3.5...
John P
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Hi!
On 10/03/2012 11:05 PM, John Pilkington wrote:
When I sent my earlier posts on this I didn't check that there was a kmdl at dl.atrpms.net that matched the current f17 kernel. I see a new kmdl has arrived today for 3.5.4-2. That may help.
http://dl.atrpms.net/f17-x86_64/atrpms/stable/nvidia-graphics302.17-kmdl-3.5...
Thank
your very much for all your pointers! I tried everything as suggested (and more) but I could get further then a complete dark screen after booting since the monitor light was completely turned off.
As this comments indicates http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12037.html?thread=373509#cmt373509 I suspected the efi boot to be guilty :) and therefore reinstalled fedora 17 (keeping my home partition) and chose the bios compatible booting mode this time (by turning the efi boot partition into a 1 MB partition choosing BIOS*something as filesystem) I then installed the nvidia driver (from rpmfusion), and regenerated the initramfs using dracut. Now the nvidia driver works as expected and as a bonus there are no failures when resuming from suspend to ram (applies to both the nvidia and the nouveau kernel module).
So thank you again for your help and numerous pointers! Now I am really deeply satisfied with my fedora 17 installation :).
Best, Andre
John P
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