Gnome shell and NVidia binary drivers

[Pasha R]

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 5:16 AM, Alexander Volovics <a.volovic at upcmail.nl> wrote:
>> 1) The rpmfusion (kmod or akmod) install does not get rid of the nouveau
>>   kernel modules as expected. You MUST run dracut to create a new
>>   initramfs file before rebooting. Only then are the nouveau modules
>>   unloaded.
>
> Well, yes and no. It's true that installing the kmod or akmod does not
> run dracut for you but it should add "rdblacklist=nouveau" to the
> kernel line in your grub.conf which should effectively stop nouveau
> from loading unless that kernel option is broken in F15.
>
> If rdblacklist is there (and still functional) then that would explain
> why running dracut didn't help.
>

If I understand correctly, nouveau driver prevents nvidia driver from
loading. This is definitely not my case. In my case nvidia driver is
loaded, and X works fine (in KDE). The problem happens only in Gnome
3.