F21 Installation Issues - Installation destination partitioning

Thu Nov 13 22:03:20 UTC 2014

Note that many Optimus notebooks do work in Optimus mode using the
NVIDIA driver, without using Bumblebee. From that NVIDIA page you linked
to: "*Some* designs incorporating supported GPUs may not be compatible
with the NVIDIA Linux driver".

On 11/13/2014 04:08 PM, Joerg Lechner wrote:
> 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:
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> 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.
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Kind Regards
>
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Mitteilung-----
> 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 <mailto:julechner at aol.com>>
> >
> >     To:
> >     <bidski at iinet.net.au <mailto:bidski at iinet.net.au>>, <test at lists.fedoraproject.org <mailto: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 <mailto:bidski at iinet.net.au>>
> >     An: test <test at lists.fedoraproject.org <mailto: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>
> >         <mailto:adamwill at fedoraproject.org <mailto:adamwill at fedoraproject.org?>>>
> >
> >         To:
> >         "Bidski" <bidski at iinet.net.au <mailto:bidski at iinet.net.au> <mailto: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>
> >         <mailto: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.
> >         -- 
> >         Adam Williamson
> >         Fedora QA Community Monkey
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