Warning: rpmfusion nvidia driver needs a special xorg.conf setup.
Thorsten Leemhuis
fedora at leemhuis.info
Sat Nov 29 13:02:39 UTC 2008
On 28.11.2008 18:29, Linuxguy123 wrote:
> Some of you may know this, but I didn't and thus I'll share what I
> learned.
>
> The rpmfusion nvidia driver needs a special xorg.conf file. It might
> not operate properly with a file that previously operated properly with
> say a livna sourced driver.
>
> Specifically, it needs this to be present:
>
> Section "Files"
> ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
> ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
> EndSection
Note: Something like that is required by the livna packages (which are
now in RPM Fusion) for years now. The enable/disable scripts add that
part to the config files automatically if everything works fine.
IOW: if you just type "yum install kmod-nvidia" it'll just work. If you
overwrite the config with nvidia-xconfig afterwards then it won't work.
I hope the current driver maintainer fix that soon. Details:
> https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=197
Further: Maintaining the drivers is a whole lot of work. RPM Fusion
afaics could need some people that help with it -- RPM packaging skills
would help, but testing packages, helping to fix bugs and writing
documentation is afaics needed as well. Any volunteers?
CU
knurd
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