Video drivers on a MacBook Pro 5,2

[Henrik Frisk]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Chris Smart <mail at christophersmart.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Henrik Frisk <frisk.h at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thanks. I'll look into this once I've gotten my nvidia drivers to work.
>
> This might help:
> http://oliver.net.au/?p=70
> http://oliver.net.au/?p=160
>
> I install the NVIDIA drivers using RPMFusion's repo, using the akmod
> (so that it's built automatically, unlike kmod).
>
> Remove current xorg.conf file, else the auto-enabling feature will fail.
>
> Something simple like this (for 64bit) should do, as root (from memory):
> yum install @development-tools
> yum install akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.x86_64 time dkms
> dracut -f /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)
>
> This will blacklist nouveau, which is why we then re-build your initramfs.
>
> Thanks Chris, this helped! Using the akmod-nvidia worked! The only other
difference (compared to how I did it before) was that I ran nvidia-xconfig
before restarting X.

Thanks again for all the help!

/h
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