F21 Installation Issues - Installation destination partitioning
Joerg Lechner
julechner at aol.com
Thu Nov 13 21:08:04 UTC 2014
Hi,
"optimus laptops" with Nvidia grafics, like the Acer Aspire E15, which I have, are not supported by Nvidia. See the currently final answer of the Nvidia support below:
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In that case, unfortunately the NVIDIA Linux driver won't work for normal display purposes.
We document this Optimus limitation under the 'Additional Information' tab at the driver download page here: http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/79413/en-us
Some users have had success with the open source bumblebee driver, but NVIDIA does not support bumblebee.
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Kind Regards
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Von: Reynold <reynoldlinux at gmail.com>
An: test <test at lists.fedoraproject.org>
Verschickt: Di, 11 Nov 2014 6:48 pm
Betreff: Re: F21 Installation Issues - Installation destination partitioning
How to manually install NVIDIA graphics driver
using yum or dnf (I prefer dnf so I will use that)
#dnf clean all
#dnf update
#dnf install gcc kernel-devel dkms
download NVIDIA driver from nvidia.com and cd to the download directory
#chmod +x NVIDIA-XXX.run (the NVIDIA driver, for instance
NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-343.13.run)
#vi /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf and insert a line with text
"blacklist nouveau" (without quotes)
#vi /etc/sysconfig/grub and insert this text
"rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau" (without quotes) and the end
of the line beginning with GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX= making sure the text is
inside the last quotation mark
#grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
#dnf remove xorg-x11-drv-nouveau.x86x_64 (this is 64bit driver - if you
have a 32bit operating system it will be 32bit driver)
#reboot
When you are in grub and the and your operating system kernel is
highlighted as the one you are booting to press the "e" on the keyboard
to edit the line
Then at the end of this line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT= still inside
the ending quotes insert this text "init 3" (without quotes)
press F10 to reboot
you should then come to a command prompt where you log on as a root user
cd to the download directory where the NVIDIA driver located
#./NVIDIA-XXX.run (for instance ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-343.13.run)
The NVIDIA installer will start
Accept the license agreement
Install 32 bit compatibility (if you are on a 64bit machine)
Choose to automatically update nvidia-xconfig-utility
reboot and log into graphical mode or from command line using root init 5
Hope this helps
Reynold
On 11/10/2014 11:49 PM, Bidski wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Can you instruct me in how you installed the nVidia drivers?
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From:
> "Joerg Lechner" <julechner at aol.com>
>
> To:
> <bidski at iinet.net.au>, <test at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Cc:
>
> Sent:
> Tue, 11 Nov 2014 02:18:35 -0500
> Subject:
> Re: F21 Installation Issues - Installation destination partitioning
>
>
> Hi,
> on my laptop there is a Nvidia Geforce 840M (Acer Aspire E15, E5
> 571G). I didn't have any problems with the grafics drivers so far.
> Currently running F21 Final TC1.
> Kind Regards
>
>
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Mitteilung-----
> Von: Bidski <bidski at iinet.net.au>
> An: test <test at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Verschickt: Mo, 10 Nov 2014 10:05 pm
> Betreff: Re: F21 Installation Issues - Installation destination
> partitioning
>
>
> Has anyone had success installing the nVidia drivers in F21 yet?
> I am meeting some strange issues following the instructions for
> installing them in F20. Including this page
> (https://www.dropbox.com/s/9de7q9llhlamf32/IMG_20141110_192627.jpg?dl=0)
> displaying while booting after installing the drivers.
>
> I will generate some better diagnostics tonight.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From:
> "Adam Williamson" <adamwill at fedoraproject.org
> <mailto:adamwill at fedoraproject.org>>
>
> To:
> "Bidski" <bidski at iinet.net.au <mailto:bidski at iinet.net.au>>,
> "For testing and quality assurance of Fedora releases"
> <test at lists.fedoraproject.org
> <mailto:test at lists.fedoraproject.org>>
> Cc:
>
> Sent:
> Sun, 09 Nov 2014 23:38:19 -0800
> Subject:
> Re: F21 Installation Issues - Installation destination
> partitioning
>
>
> On Mon, 2014-11-10 at 18:28 +1100, Bidski wrote:
> >
> > After shifting the partitions on my HDD up by about 200 MiB
> and then
> > using gdisk to convert the disk to GPT (did it this way to
> try and
> > preserve the existing Windows partitions), the Fedora
> installer now
> > only recognises my HDD as a multipath device.
>
> > I also looked at the F21 Common Bugs page on the wiki. There
> is a
> > section there talking about multipath device issue. I
> created edited
> > the /etc/multipath.conf file to have the contents specified
> but the
> > installer still treats all devices as multipaths.
> >
> > Any suggestions here?
>
> I wrote the CommonBugs note blind - I couldn't test that the
> proposed
> workaround would actually work as I haven't reproduced the bug.
>
> However, it shouldn't happen if you use a non-live install
> image, so I'd
> suggest that. You can use the 'Server' network install image
> to install
> any package set, not just Server, so try using that.
> --
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