[fedora] Re: How many people need to use the proprietary nvidia driver ? (Or other non kms driver ?)

Dave Martin darkmoon at vt.edu
Tue Jan 5 12:44:55 UTC 2010


On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 03:08:39PM +0100, steven bellens wrote:
> 2010/1/4 Dave Martin <darkmoon at vt.edu>:
> > On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 09:21:18PM -0700, Linuxguy123 wrote:
> >> Please reply if you need to ( ie must) use the proprietary nvidia driver
> >> instead of the nouveau driver.
> >>
> >> Or some other video driver that doesn't support kernel mode switching.
> >>
> >> DON'T reply otherwise, I don't want to hear a debate on the free
> >> versions versus proprietary or anything else.
> >>
> >> If you are using the proprietary nvidia driver or some other non kms
> >> equipped driver, how are you finding F12 ? ?Ie do you experience
> >> freezing when you access some panel items ?
> >
> > I wish I could use the proprietary driver. ?But there isn't one yet.
> 
> There is: http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-nvidia.html#nvidia_driver_versions


Silly me.  I was using their search function.  I'm running with it now.
It did fix the blender issue.  I haven't turned Compiz on yet.

Thanks.


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Dave
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The third station burned down, fell over then sank into the vortex.  The fourth
station just vanished.  And the fifth station, THAT stayed!




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