Gnome shell and NVidia binary drivers

[Daniel J Walsh]

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On 06/02/2011 09:08 AM, Alexander Volovics wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 08:56:37AM -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> 
>>>> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Alexander Volovics <a.volovic at upcmail.nl> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> So can their be some kind of conflict between the nvidia drivers and
>>>>> the gnome 3 shell. Is it possible that selinux is involved in this
>>>>> somehow.
>>>>>
>>>>> I really would like to solve this because I have wasted enough time
>>>>> trying to get this working. Any help would be appreciated.
>>>>>
>>>>> Alexander
>>>  
>>>> I installed the akmod-nvidia, and now also ran dracut --force to
>>>> recreate initramfs (and, obviously, rebooted). It doesn't help. I
>>>> installed KDE and it works, so, I guess drivers are working.
>>>
>>> I don't doubt that the drivers work.
>>> I had previously installed ubuntu 11.04 on this same pc and
>>> installed the same nvidia drivers. They worked ok there.
>>> (But I didn't like unity so I removed ubuntu and installed fed 15)
>>>
>>> Knowing that the drivers should work is hardly comforting when they
>>> refuse to work with fed15/gnome3.
>>>
>>> I hope somebody comes with a suggestion or I will be forced to
>>> install KDE (which I don't like but at least you do not need to
>>> install the nvidia drivers because nouveau works quite well) or
>>> Xfce (which I don't like either and which has some bugs/shortcomings)
>  
>> Put the machine in permissive mode and see if SELinux is blocking it.
>>
>> setenforce 0
> 
> I had already tried this. Does not make any difference.
> I also tried changing the label on 'nvidiactl' as mentioned in
> Bugzilla (694918). No effect either.
> 
> Alexander
> 
Well most likely SELinux is off the hook then.
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