Gnome shell and NVidia binary drivers

Pasha R pashar.ml at gmail.com
Thu Jun 2 08:38:56 UTC 2011


On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
> On 06/02/2011 03:53 PM, Pasha R wrote:
>> I'm running F15 on Dell Latitude D620 Laptop with NVidia NVS 110M
>> video card. So far I used it with nouveau drivers and while it ran
>> fairly well, I experienced sometimes glitches - screen becoming white
>> or otherwise unreadable. So, I tried to install NVidia drivers from
>> RPMFusion. After log in, gnome shell draws its top bar, but after that
>> it simply stops drawing anything on screen. If I launch terminal, I
>> can see that mouse pointer changes when it goes in and out of terminal
>> window, but window itself can not be seen.
>> After sometime it displays "sad terminal" icon with a message "Oh no!
>> Something has gone wrong. A problem has occurred and the system can't
>> recover. Please log out and try again".
>> Are NVidia drivers supported by Gnome 3?
>> Should I file bug for this? And if yes - to RedHat bugzilla or to Gnome?
>
> I've just installed the nvidia drivers from RPMfusion as well.  Running
> F15-x86_64.  I've got a GeForce GT 230.
>
> After the install, I still had to use dracut to recreate the initramfs
> with the nouveau driver blacklisted.  Thought the install was going to
> take care of that...but it didn't.
>
> Anyway, my reason for doing this was that I wanted to run GNOME 3 in a
> Vbox guest.  In order to do that you need to enable 3D in the display
> section.  The Vbox guest would crash when bringing up the GNOME Shell.
> No problems with the nVidia drivers.
>
> But, to answer your question.....  GNOME shell runs just fine on my system.
>
> I normally run KDE and I will have to say the nVidia drivers do perform
> better than nouveau.  The shading is better as well as the desktop
> effects and transitions.  But, nouveau is getting better every release.
>
> Whatever you do, don't file a bugzilla about nVidia drivers on
> Redhat/Fedora.  It is specifically *UNSUPPORTED*.
>

Thanks for the tip. I ran dracut --force and rebooted, but it didn't help.

BTW, I also run F15 with full Gnome3 in VBox on my F14 host machine
with NVidia drivers (GeForce GT 240), and it works fairly well.
I know that NVidia drivers are officially not supported by Fedora, but
it is probably supported configuration for Gnome, so I'll try it
there.


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